If you thought that fixing the botched initial roll out of
ObamaCare was enough to keep people working around the clock for months on end,
you might just be more right than you know.
A St. Louis area contractor employed to process ObamaCare applications
was paid more than 13,000 hours in overtime to clean up the backlogged mess.
That's right. 13,000 hours. Roughly 541
days of overtime.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: From May 1 through Aug. 15
last year, workers in the Wentzville facility logged 13,228.25 hours of
overtime to process "backlogged inconsistency work," according to a
report by Serco Inc., the contractor running the facility for the federal Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. ...
Serco, a British-based company with U.S. headquarters in
Northern Virginia, was awarded a five-year contract, worth up to $1.2 billion,
to process applications for the Affordable Care Act. It was paid $114 million
for the first year of the contract and $98 million for the current year, with
annual renewal options.
But, there are now questions as to whether all of that
overtime was necessary, or if it was inflated by employees goofing off on the
job:
The Post-Dispatch filed Freedom of Information Act requests
after whistleblower allegations that workers in Wentzville were playing games,
reading or purposely working slowly because they had so little to do. ...
Lavonne Takatz, who had worked at Wentzville from October
2013 to April 2014, said: "We played
Pictionary. We played 20 Questions. We played Trivial
Pursuit."
"I feel guilty for working there as long as I
did," Takatz told the Post-Dispatch last year. "It was like I was
stealing money from people."
This, of course, isn't the only tale of corruption that
ObamaCare has spawned. The FBI is
currently investigating Oregon's ObamaCare exchange. Another scandal already
prompted Gov. John Kitzhaber to resign, but that hasn't stopped the feds from
looking in to his decision to put a campaign aide in charge of the now-failed
state ObamaCare exchange.
It's sad but true: complex and complicated government
schemes like ObamaCare all but invite this kind of corruption and malfeasance.
It's yet another reason we need to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with
market-based reforms that will deliver to people the health care they need,
without breeding this kind of corruption.
Source: Carrie Lukas VP for Policy & Economics
Independent Women's Voice
Comments
I bet the 1000 employees awaiting millions of Amnesty
recipients and “refugees” are similarly underutilized.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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