they were responsible for building and to say where those items really were. then it turns out that about a month later, in the days just before october 1, when obviously the website tried to launch, what the company had predicted in a august didn t turn out to be true a month later. by august of 2013, just a couple of months ago, the federal taxpayers had by cgi federal about $197 million. in order to get all these ficks completed, having that many people work on this different bugs that were in healthcare.gov, do we have any idea how much more money the taxpayers have had to pay to fix it? that s a good question. $197 million hasn t all been paid, but that s the amount the federal government has promised to pay. as i understand it, the negotiations of whether there s going to be more that s owed hasn t taken place. they re working more on getting
looked through this report. hindsight is 20/20, you can look back and say how did they miss that? when i read your there s new information about the obama care website s failure to launch. it turns out that cgi, the contractor that built healthcare.gov was high on confidence but low on delivery. amy goldstein joins us. amy, what did you find when you looked through this report. hindsight is 20/20, you can look back and say how did they miss that? when i read your article, i was very surprised that no one was running around threatening to light a match on their head if they didn t do something to let the president know this was not ready for prime time. well, actually within hhs, the department of health and human services, from the documents that we looked at for this story that ran in the post this weekend showed us that starting about early july, people were starting to get very worried that the main contractor that had been hired to build this website, as you said, cbi federal s
increased costs for anyone that gets health care through their employer. the real problem with obama care is not that the website isn t working. it s frankly that the affordable care act is working just as it was designed. the roll out and a malfunctioning website isn t the problem. obama care, itself, is the problem. we re seeing costs go up. we re seeing millions of americans lose the insurance that they like. hello, everyone, i m dana perino. the obama care deadline to fix healthcare.gov, it will operate much better than it did in october. much better. that s it? former senior adviser to president reagan joins us. sir, what do you think is going to happen on november 30th?
month later, in the days just before october 1, when obviously the website tried to launch, what the company had predicted in a august didn t turn out to be true a month later. by august of 2013, just a couple of months ago, the federal taxpayers had by cgi federal about $197 million. in order to get all these ficks completed, having that many people work on this different bugs that were in healthcare.gov, do we have any idea how much more money the taxpayers have had to pay to fix it? that s a good question. $197 million hasn t all been paid, but that s the amount the federal government has promised to pay.
tradeoffs in the health care law. what sort of political price do you think the white house will pay, if the deadline is not met, their own self-imposed dead line of november 30, when the website s supposed to be up and running. do you think it s a giant game of jenga, when you find out your health care premiums are not going down, your doctor might not be on the plan you wanted. are they about to yank out a piece and the whole thing falls apart? right the jenga idea does suggest that maybe there will be some enormous collapse. it could be that there s a continual decline. there s a new poll out in which people were asked, do you believe president obama can manage the government effectively. just 47% thought he could manage the government effectively. i would expect the president s approval ratings to go down further. then you have to remember, we