The Ledger
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Hoffman: Healthcare.gov cost $500 million in contractor spending prior to launch
“Prior to launch, around five hundred million dollars had been spent on various contractors, part of the procurement process President Obama mentioned at the top of the show.”
Obama: Healthcare.gov rollout was his most frustrating self-inflicted presidential wound
“Bottom line is the thing didn't work on the first day. And then it didn't work on the second day or the first seven days, and it was a political nightmare. Probably the most frustrated, self-inflicted wound of my presidency.”
Palka: Healthcare.gov relied on 55 contractors, changing regulations, and zero testing
“On top of that, a crazy architecture, 55 different contractors, a regulation that governed the website changing literally up until the day that the website was supposed to launch, and a lack of testing is not a recipe for success.”