Originally Posted by Rochard

You keep looking at it like it's a website. It's not.

The health department was tasked with coming up with an entirely new system based on a new law which had to be compatible with multiple US government systems, every healthcare provider in the US, every hospital and every doctor's office, AND every citizen in the US. (Don't tell me it doesn't; Every doctor has to talk to every hospital and every healthcare provide who has to talk to the US government... My wife's office not only had to upgrade all of their computers, as did their healthcare provider.)

But before they wrote a single piece of html code, before they even had a discussion about protocols, they had to have a long legal discussion... Every state has strict laws about how to handle healthcare information, and all of them are different - so before anything was done they had to figure out how to legally work it. And everyone involved that discussion had to have background checks (you already how that shit works), hundreds or even thousands of people flying around to meetings with different state attorney's offices, healthcare providers, flights, meals, hotels... All before a single bit code was written.

Yeah, I can see $90 million in a heartbeat.