Episode 561 • • 1:51:57 - 1:55:55
561: Neuroelasticity
Healthcare.gov Costs, IT Version Control Failures
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified that the Healthcare.gov website cost approximately $118 million. IT insiders report that the contractors, including CGI Federal, failed to use basic version control systems like Git or Subversion. The project is described as "amateur hour," with testing consisting of simple command-line tools rather than robust quality assurance.