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MA Fires CGI for Health Connector Site Failures

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expexting-different-results dept.

GungnirSniper writes:

"CGI Group, the Montreal-based IT consulting company behind the botched rollout of the Federal Healthcare.gov site, has been removed from the Massachusetts Health Connector project. This comes about two months after being removed from Healthcare.gov, and a few weeks after CGI admitted the MA site 'may not be fully functioning by the end of June, and that one option under consideration is to scrap the multi-million-dollar site and start over.'

Like Oregon's similar troubles, Massachusetts uses paper submissions as a workaround to meet Federal sign-up requirements. 'The paper backlog fell to 21,000 pending applications, from 54,000 two weeks ago.'

If you are in the US, have you used Healthcare.gov or a State equivalent? If you are not in the US, do you use similar online systems in your nation?"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @06:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @06:05PM (#18189)

    The health care exchanges are not intended for use by people who already have good insurance trhough a group policy (such as your employer). The exchange is for private insurance. if you don't have a job, or your employer doesn't offer insurance (many don't), then it is the best way.