{"id":24851,"date":"2015-01-23T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:26:20","slug":"rewarding-incompetence-at-taxpayers-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24851","title":{"rendered":"Rewarding Incompetence At Taxpayer’s Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Fox News<\/a> reported that the government has awarded a $4.5 million IT contract for its new ObamaCare<\/a> tax program to CGI, the company responsible for the ObamaCare internet roll out. This is an IRS<\/a> contract to provide \u201ccritical functions\u201d and \u201cmanagement support\u201d for its Obamacare tax program. Really? Wasn’t there anyone else?<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Prior to terminating CGI\u2019s contract, Health and Human Services Secretary<\/a> Kathleen Sebelius<\/a> told Congress, \u201cI am as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of HealthCare.gov.\u201d She called the CGI-designed website a \u201cdebacle.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A joint Senate Finance and Judiciary Committee staff report in June 2014<\/a> found that Turning Point Global Solutions, hired by HHS to review CGI\u2019s performance on Healthcare.gov, reported they found 21,000 lines of defective software code inserted by CGI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Amey, the general counsel for the non-profit Project on Government Oversight<\/a>, which reviews government contracting, examined the IRS contract with CGI.
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCGI was the poster child for government failure,\u201d he told The Daily Caller<\/a>. \u201cI am shocked that the IRS has turned around and is using them for Obamacare IT work.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who in the world is making these decisions, and why?<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Curiously, CGI features its online health work in Helsinki<\/a>, London, Alberta, Saskatchewan and for the New York State<\/a> of Mental Health, but says nothing about its ruined rollout of Obamacare web sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Canada, CGI\u2019s parent company, Montreal-based CGI Group<\/a>, was just as deficient.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ontario health officials fired CGI after it failed to deliver<\/a> a flagship provincial online health registry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 7 million Obamacare policyholders and about 20 million Americans who don\u2019t have healthcare coverage will depend this year on the proper IRS processing of their 2014 income tax returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Improper processing of health information could cause some Americans to receive smaller tax refunds, or even pay more out-of-pocket for their government-issued healthcare policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to a government run by the Keystone Kops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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