Consumers Abandoning Healthcare.gov

Can you blame them? According to Digital Trends (DT), "more than $500 million" was spent creating "the digital equivalent of a rock." DT's source is the General Accounting Office (GAO). Most spending went for contracts, saying: "CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) data indicated that the agency spent almost $394 million from fiscal year 2010 through March 31, 2013, through contracts to complete activities to establish the FFEs and the data hub and carry out certain other exchange-related activities."

FFE's are federally administrative exchanges. They include Healthcare.gov and Washington run state exchanges. Other costs went for salaries and administrative expense. CGI Federal is Healthcare.gov's lead contractor. It got $93.7 million for failure. It's done lots of previous government work.

Former employee/whistleblower Benjamin Ashmore sued. He alleged millions of dollars in fraud. He was fired for refusing to go along with a rigged bidding process...