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This very same article was on the front page all day today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6526761

HealthCare.gov cost $93.7 million, which is still outrageous.

Looks like they adjusted the figure - earlier it was at $634 million from what I saw but now it looks like it's closer to $500 million. Regardless, it's still a ridiculous amount...

The cost of the Iraq War was over $800 billion. Over a ten year period, I would expect the cost of national healthcare to be on the order of ~1 trillion dollars.

$500 million is 0.05% of $1 trillion.

If your link contains a proof the figure is only $93.7 million, the proof is currently buried deeply. Perhaps you could link directly.

"the bulk of which ($88 million) went to CGI Federal, the company awarded a $93.7 million contract to build Healthcare.gov and other technology portions of the FFEs"

That is from the article.

That was the original quote it said - since then it's exceeded $500 million...

"We, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $500 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock."

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