How federal cronies built -- and botched -- Healthcare.gov | E government - InfoWorld: "The biggest problem with Healthcare.gov seems simple enough: It was built by people who are apparently far more familiar with government cronyism than they are with IT.The website turns out to be a mirror of the crony corruption that gave us Obamacare in the first place. What a shock.
That's one of the insights that can be gleaned from the work done by the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that focuses on government transparency. In a report filed this past week, the group examined why the system broke as horribly as it did: The contracts awarded to those who built it were, by and large, existing government contractors with "deep political pockets.""
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