{"id":19212,"date":"2013-10-22T17:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2013-10-22T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:21:20","slug":"company-behind-failed-obamacare-website-wins-award-for-steering-people-away-from-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19212\/company-behind-failed-obamacare-website-wins-award-for-steering-people-away-from-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Behind Failed Obamacare Website Wins Award for Steering People Away From Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Opportunity, a national organization of young people focused on promoting liberty, presented the main contractor behind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.gov\/\">HealthCare.gov<\/a> \u2013 the Obamacare website \u2013 with the first ever\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/generationopportunity.org\/press\/generation-opportunity-to-award-cgi-federal-with-prestigious-youth-defender-award\/#axzz2iTVuqTBv\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Defender Award<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a deliciously tongue-in-cheek press announcement released on Monday, Generation Opportunity <a href=\"http:\/\/generationopportunity.org\/press\/generation-opportunity-to-award-cgi-federal-with-prestigious-youth-defender-award\/#axzz2iTVuqTBv\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> that CGI Federal, the American subsidiary of the Canadian multinational CGI Group, has done \u201cmore than anyone to date to save young people from the increased costs and privacy invasions of Obamacare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Generation Opportunity <a href=\"http:\/\/generationopportunity.org\/press\/generation-opportunity-to-award-cgi-federal-with-prestigious-youth-defender-award\/#axzz2iTVuqTBv\" target=\"_blank\">continues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSure, CGI is billing the government\u00a0over 300% of their original contract, and taxpayers could be on the hook for\u00a0$292 million\u00a0dollars for the healthcare equivalent of\u00a0Project ORCA. But no cost is too much to bear to help young people avoid this expensive and creepy law.<\/p>\n<p>Generation Opportunity congratulates all the worthy candidates, including the runner-up, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/10\/07\/sebelius_individuals_can_get_a_one_year_obamacare_delay_by_paying_the_penalty.html\" target=\"_blank\">reminded young people<\/a> on The Daily Show that they can get the same exemption from Obamacare as businesses by opting out and paying the penalty. After all, Sebelius had the foresight to hire CGI knowing they had a track record of protecting patients from government-run health care. The Canadian government\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/canadian-officials-fired-it-firm-behind-troubled-obamacare-website\/article\/2537101\" target=\"_blank\">had previously fired<\/a> CGI\u2019s parent company for failing to create a functioning website for Ontario\u2019s medical registry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Generation Opportunity developed the awesomely sardonic award in order to promote its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optout.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OptOut.org<\/a> website, which encourages young Americans to choose health insurance plans outside of the Obamacare exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The young folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/generationopportunity.org\/who-we-are\/#axzz2iTVuqTBv\" target=\"_blank\">Generation Opportunity<\/a> deserve an award themselves \u2013 for providing those of us who despise Obamacare with a big laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Opportunity, a national organization of young people focused on promoting liberty, presented the main contractor behind\u00a0HealthCare.gov \u2013 the Obamacare website \u2013 with the first ever\u00a0Youth Defender Award. In a deliciously tongue-in-cheek press announcement released on Monday, Generation Opportunity noted that CGI Federal, the American subsidiary of the Canadian multinational CGI Group, has done \u201cmore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4342,4343,4326,4341,4340,476,35],"class_list":["post-19212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cgi-federal","tag-cgi-group","tag-exchanges","tag-generation-opportunity","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19215,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}