More problems with the implementation of the white elephant Obamacare continues.
The website crashed this weekend. Its back up and running for now. Wonder if info got lost, which is common with site crashes.
"The company that operates HealthCare.gov experienced a connectivity glitch on Sunday, another complication for an already beleaguered population of would-be health care applicants.
White House officials said the company that operates the hub, Terremark, was working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
Health and Human Services spokesman Joanne Peters said in a statement that the website was down because the company "experienced a failure in a networking component, and planned maintenance to replace it brought down network connectivity to the data center."
"Our understanding is that this failure is likely impacting several other sites, in addition to HealthCare.gov and the Data Services Hub," she added."
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new...es-connectivity?lite
A complete rebuild may be required.
"The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said ObamaCare’s Web site, already a tangled mess, might need to be rebuilt from scratch to to protect against cyber-thieves because he fears it’s not a safe place right now for health-care consumers to deposit their personal information.
“ I know that they’ve called in another private entity to try to help with the security of it. The problem is, they may have to redesign the entire system,” Rep. Mike Rogers said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” political talk show. “The way the system is designed, it is not secure.”
Returning to questions he raised last week at a chaotic oversight hearing on ObamaCare, Rogers said healthcare.gov could be vulnerable to cyber-mischief because of a potentially leaky data-sharing arrangement between the seven federal agencies that manage different parts of ObamaCare."
http://nypost.com/2013/10/27/o...-have-to-be-rebuilt/
The present chaos cost $634 million, a 680 percent cost overrun for the original estimate. Nevermind the months of delay and possible personal data loss to hackers, which has already occurred.
Per the Treasury IG, another $67 million can't be accounted for.
"The “Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund” (HIRIF) was tucked into Obamacare in order to give the IRS money to enforce the tax provisions of the healthcare law. The fund, totaling some $1 billion of taxpayer money, was used to roll out enforcement mechanisms for the approximately 50 tax provisions of Obamacare.
According to the report: “Specifically, the IRS did not account for or attempt to quantify approximately $67 million [from the slush fund] of indirect ACA costs incurred for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2012.' "
Read more: http://atr.org/irs-watchdog-mi...-a7886#ixzz2j1PxTijU
For the original Treasury IG report go to:
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/...rts/201313115fr.html
I've audited private firms that lost or had stolen hundreds of thousands, it takes the government (the IRS, imagine the irony) to lose millions.
Republicans in the House made a tactical error attempting to defund this turkey. Better to let the thing lurch along like the monster it is. Simply refuse new funding and demand the reasons for the failures.