Mission Impossible: Fix HealthCare.gov

In preparation for the 2015 open enrollment season, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have tapped Accenture Federal Services (AFS) to fix the continuous flawed ObamaCare website.

As reported by the Washington Times, Accenture Federal Services’ signed a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to begin working on initial repairs to HealthCare.gov. In addition, AFS agreed to repair HealthCare.gov by “enhancing back-end capabilities to improve issuer payments and plan management including deploying features.” The cost for this project – 121 million taxpayers’ dollars.

As a slap in the face to taxpayers, this new contract is $30 million more than CGI was given to build the initial website. CMS officials stated, “The richer contract is explained by the fact that its requirements specify website functions that were not included in the initial contract.”

Unfortunately for families, this new $121 million expense will be extremely difficult to add in their family budget. With the failures of the first open enrollment, it is hard for taxpayers to believe that HealthCare.gov will be “fully functional” before the 2015 open enrollment season.

From Fox News:

“There doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel for Obamacare website expenses,” said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican. “Developers are still being brought in to finish building HealthCare.gov, some states are abandoning their own failed sites, and federal taxpayers are still being handed the bills for it all.”