23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history

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Re: 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history

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** 13-Aug-2019 World View: Healthcare.gov
Kathy wrote: > This all... ALL..comes down to greed, politics, (are they the
> same)? and lack of honesty. How do they sleep at night? They will
> someday, I hope, reap the whirlwind.

> Your experience with the FAA reminded me of a story my dad told me
> that I will never forget, an incident that involves public safety
> vs greed/project completion, money, politics...who knows?

> My father was the owner/operator of an industrial x-ray business
> in the state of Maine while I was growing up in the 60's and
> 70's. Your writings remind me much of him, a man of integrity whom
> I looked up to as an example to follow.

> He inspected a large, new parking garage in downtown Portland, ME,
> and FAILED EVERY SINGLE WELD. He outright TOLD the city that the
> building would eventually fail and COLLAPSE because of the
> incompetence of the welded beams. The city decided they did not
> want to take his results seriously, and HIRED SOMEONE ELSE,
> another inspector, who was obviously either incompetent or was
> bribed, and who PASSED the project inspection. I believe this
> incident was in the 70's. So far, the building (which is CONNECTED
> to an historic hotel) is still standing, but you could not PAY me
> to park there. I am so saddened by what you've experienced, John.
> Please know that there are still some of us honest folks out here,
> though like you, I've become more and more jaded and discouraged
> with this present generation.
Thanks for your message.

I wrote that article four years ago. It clearly documented criminal
fraud in the development of Healthcare.gov, based on dozens of
interviews. Obama spent $500 million over a $1 billion on a project
that shouldn't have cost more than $50 million. It's just an
e-commerce web site after all. The development of Healthcare.gov was
a total disaster.

And yet, four years later, I have not read a single article anywhere,
except on my web site, that discusses the disaster. Not a single one.
And of course CGI Corp., the Massachusetts contractor who committed
fraud in many ways, including by falsifying test results, has not been
charged with anything, and is still happily in business, probably
defrauding other people.


** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... 150823.htm

** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... 150823.htm

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