“Racing
to meet an October deadline, Obama administration officials said
Thursday that they had awarded a contract worth as much as $1.2 billion
to a British company to help them sift applications for health insurance
and tax credits under the new health-care law.” British firm awarded huge contract to take over Obamacare
A big part of Obamacare is in British hands. And the news in Friday’s New York Times came with exquisite, if unremarked, timing.Under the headline, “Big Contract Is Awarded to Administer Health Rollout,” The Times reported:
So someone confirmed the White House had selected a British company to take over America’s health-care system … on the Fourth of July. http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/07/05/british-firm-awarded-huge-contract-to-take-over-obamacare-79197
Historical irony aside, the story isn’t without other misgivings.
“The company, Serco, has extensive experience as a government contractor with the Defense Department and intelligence agencies, and it also manages air traffic control towers in 11 states and reviews visa applications for the State Department,” The Times reports. “But it has little experience with the Department of Health and Human Services or the insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, where individuals and small businesses are supposed to be able to shop for insurance.”
So the train wreck rolls on. With a deadline of Oct. 1 looming, the administration has already punted away one huge part of Obamacare’s implementation by deferring for a year its mandate on businesses with 50 or more employees to provide workers health insurance.
July 5, 2013 by
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