{"id":19122,"date":"2013-10-10T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2013-10-10T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:21:56","slug":"cost-of-obamacare-website-compared-to-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19122\/cost-of-obamacare-website-compared-to-tech-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Obamacare Website Compared to Tech Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare.gov, Obamacare\u2019s federally-run, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1988-focus-on-obamacare-website-glitches-mask-larger-threat\" target=\"_blank\">error-prone health insurance exchange<\/a>, costs north of $500 million, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/opinion\/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\">best information available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in perspective, compare that amount to the operating budgets of some of the tech industry\u2019s biggest names:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook operated for six years before passing the $500 million mark in 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twitter operated for five years on $360.17 million in total funding<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Instagram used $57.5 million before being bought by Facebook last year<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LinkedIn has raised $200 million, while Spotify has raised $288 million<\/p>\n<p>Despite the huge funding disparities, however, all of these private sector firms fielded much better online products than the glitch-filled, click-and-crash monstrosity offered by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a week of operation, Healthcare.gov is doing little more than waste people\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>Defunding never looked so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare.gov, Obamacare\u2019s federally-run, error-prone health insurance exchange, costs north of $500 million, according to the best information available. To put this in perspective, compare that amount to the operating budgets of some of the tech industry\u2019s biggest names: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook operated for six years before passing the $500 million mark in 2010 \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twitter operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4235,3007,3308,1829,24,35],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-defund","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19126,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions\/19126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}