The Department of Health and Human Services will replace Verizon Communications’s Terremark subsidiary as its Web-hosting provider for the federal health-insurance marketplace, presenting a new challenge to the rollout of the Obama administration’s signature health-care initiative.
HHS won’t renew its contract with Terremark and instead awarded a new contract over the summer to Hewlett-Packard to host the website.
HHS has awarded $55.4 million to Verizon for its work to support the health-law marketplaces since its contract began in 2011, including an award for $9.4 million of new website capacity this month.
This announcement comes on the day that the Obama Administration has aborted the marketing campaign for the site, discouraged people from trying to access it on the day it was promised to be fixed, and announced a 14 month delay in the website for small businesses to sign up for ObamaCare.
Wow! The Obammunists must REALLY be panicking to switch horses in midstream, because the chances that things get worse, much worse, before they get better (if ever) with a change of this magnitude is about 100%.
Besides, picking HP to do this instead of Verizon is like jumping from the pan into the fire. If they REALLY had wanted to pick a competent company and website host, they’d have picked google or amazon or the like.
Besides, how can they just “pick” anyway? Whatever happened to the quaint concept of “bidding”?
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