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Healthcare.gov Paid to Fix Own Mistakes

RIPPED OFF

Contractor got $4 million more.

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The United States paid the contractor that botched Healthcare.gov $4 million to fix its own errors, according to a federal audit. The government only withheld $267,420 of what it owed CGI Global, despite massive failures with the site’s launch. According to the audit, the extra spending is part of a system that allows contractors to charge taxpayers for the costs of a project—and then charge a fee on top of that.

Read it at Bloomberg