Here are the testimonies of the healthcare.gov contractors for Congress. Note that QSSI is located here in Columbia, with offices on Governor Warfield and Little Patuxent. They have been name prime contractor to fix healthcare.gov. Normally, I would be glad that a local company is playing a major role in what could be the most visible software project ever. However, QSSI was bought out by United Health Group, the largest health carrier in the US, after QSSI was awarded the contract for their part of healthcare.gov. This was clearly a conflict of interest but it was not mentioned in the House hearings.
Possibly the lowest point of the hearing was Joe Barton's claim that healthcare.gov was not HIPAA compliant, and got push back from Frank Pallone. Move the time slider near 01:09:58 to see Barton; Pallone responds six minutes later. Our Congressman John Sarbanes has his say near 03:04:28.
From Ron,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to see the Barton show again! How do you suppose I could have confused Joe Barton with Adam Putnam? Both wierd, I gues. Mike, remenber the cynical comment I made to the effect that a desire to slow actual application flow at the front end might have been seen as a way to slow screwups in the "834" process, which is where the rubber really hits the road? This article?blog sort of validates that possibility. The blog comments are also very interesting and enlightening, but you have probably seen them before..
Obamacare's most important number: 834