Chapter 12, Problem 16CSQ

Explanation of Solution

“HealthCare.gov”:

• The united states President BO’s administration had formed “Patient Protection and Affordable care Act” and it is called as “Obamacare”.
• Healthcare.gov is used to provide health care improvement plan in the form of health insurance exchange website.
• The website is used to assist with the sale of private health insurance plans for the people of the United States.
• The below are the problems that are encountered by the project “HealthCare.gov”:
• There was problem with the customer account creation; they were not able to create their own account because of the technical issue.
  • When creating account a cryptic error message was encountered when the digital identities are assigned to their enrollers.
• The application that sends the message to the insurers contains erroneous information in it.
• There system contained many flaws with the design structure and there was also network traffic.
• The system does not allow more number of users accessing at the same time.

Economic impact of the botched implementation of the HealthCare.gov:

The below are the economic impacts of the botched implementation of the HealthCare.gov:

• There were large number of contractor and intermediators involved in the project.
• The development of the project is tending to be coordinated by the United States centres for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS).
• The front end of the project was handled by the start-up Development seed and in the same way the backend was handled by CGI Federal.
• The estimated amount of the project has been tripled from the initial estimation and it was reported by the London based international news agency “Reuters”
• The initial estimation cost is “$93...