{"id":21235,"date":"2014-08-06T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21235"},"modified":"2014-08-06T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:36:20","slug":"vermont-latest-to-fire-obamacare-website-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21235\/vermont-latest-to-fire-obamacare-website-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Latest to Fire ObamaCare Website Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nearly a year of failed attempts, Vermont is firing CGI Federal<\/a> \u2013 the company that bungled both the federal healthcare.gov and Massachusetts\u2019 online insurance exchange \u2013 as its web designer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Vermont still lacking a fully functioning health website more than 10 months after its glitch-plagued debut last October, Vermont officials said late Monday that they were pulling the plug on CGI\u2019s CGI Technologies and Solutions\u2019 contract,\u201d reports Newsweek.<\/p>\n

The decision will cost CGI almost $20 million, but at least Vermont has agreed not to sue the company for damages.<\/p>\n

Vermont\u2019s announcement follows several other states that have abandoned<\/a> their original \u2013 and very expensive \u2013 ObamaCare websites. Some, like Nevada, Hawaii, and Oregon, are planning to cut their losses and transition to the federal healthcare.gov website. Others, like Massachusetts, Maryland, and now Vermont, are switching to new contractors hoping to recoup at least some of their investments.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are success stories. State exchanges in Kentucky and Connecticut are routinely cited as well-functioning websites – though even these have glitches<\/a>. However, the prevalence of so many high-profile failures indicates that this massive experiment in public-private partnerships has resulted in a huge transfer of wealth with precious little to show for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After nearly a year of failed attempts, Vermont is firing CGI Federal \u2013 the company that bungled both the federal healthcare.gov and Massachusetts\u2019 online insurance exchange \u2013 as its web designer. \u201cWith Vermont still lacking a fully functioning health website more than 10 months after its glitch-plagued debut last October, Vermont officials said late Monday […]<\/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":[4560,3007,3308,1829,35,1273],"class_list":["post-21235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cgi","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235","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=21235"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21246,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions\/21246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}