When the initial ACA (Obamacare law) was enacted I was enthused about the immediate requirement and the tax credit given to hospitals, clinics and doctor's offices to eliminate paper healthcare records and go to digital record keeping with the interactivity with other healthcare providers.

So enthused in fact that I assembled a possible team of developers, one of which was a former employee of IBM who did AIX and DB2 development. But when it came down to investigate who could apply for the multi-millions in federal grants for these projects you had to be affiliated with a university to even be considered.

This goes to the letting of these bids for the healthcare.gov website ... The prequalifications may have possibly excluded the most able bidders with the talent and real work qualifications to do the job. Obviously the "consultants" hired were full of shit -- their shit didn't work ...