Did the presidents veto it? No. Then they are to blame too.

How about knowing how to change the phone tables so it looked like the call that was doing this was coming from someone else's house. They would know that someone was hacking, they could trace it back, but the trace would lead to the wrong house. Probably one of the reason he was so well known. If you can hack and no one knows it, you might not get famous.

Yes, the baby boomers are now all over thirty, but they would probably be considered liberals not libertarians. The movement that spoke of don't trust anyone over thirty was the hippies. The phrase is credited to Jack Weinberg.

It is nice that Fred Phelps Jr. decided to follow a different path than his father by affiliating with a different political party. Fred Phelps ran for office in Kansas several times as a Democrat. From wikipedia "He has occasionally run for political office as a Democrat. In the election for United States Senator for Kansas in 1992, he received 49,416 votes (30.8%) in the Democratic primary, coming in second after Gloria O'Dell (who subsequently lost to later presidential candidate Bob Dole)." It is disingenuous to just assign people who you disapprove of to the other party. Fred Phelps is often referred to as right wing, but his political party choice was the Democrats.

You don't die without health insurance, you go broke if you get a bad illness. You don't die without car insurance, you go broke if you get in a bad wreck.

When my father turned 65 he was forced into Medicare (you cannot opt out without penalty) and his health insurance rates went up. No we are not part of the one percent.

Congratulations! You have been named to the board of directors of a major public company.

Halliburton was a competatively bid contract for rebuilding. In fact, it is very similar, so either that contract was not no-bid or this contract was no bid. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/207451/bush-iraq-scandal-wasnt/byron-york

I would say yes and no. You can always write a contract such that there can only be one bidder. You just add restrictions that no one else can meet. Must have thousands of hours in experience building government exchanges would be a good choice.

The first 55.7 million spent on the Obamacare site was purchased from CGI Federal without bidding. The contract that CGI Federal won (31 bidders) was simply an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity agreement. This means that the government can buy things from you. Most federal contractors have one of these. The administration then purchased 55.7 million on this contract without bidding it out. There was probably a dollar limit that caused them to have to do an open bidding. The government had already spent 55.7 million with CGI Federal when they bid out the contract extension specifically to build the Obamacare site. Most companies do not bid on these extensions because they go to the incumbent unless the Government is unhappy with them. Who else is better positioned to extend code and provide fixes than the company that wrote the first 55.7 million of the code.

What is being claimed here is that there was bidding for the contract that allowed CGI Federal to sell to the Government. This is basically a vehicle used to purchase services. CGI Federal was awarded a contract that allows them to sell things (IT services) to the government. The site was started on this contract without rebidding. When the extension in 2011 was bid to 4 provides CGI Federal reported at the time of the extension that it had received $55.7 million for the first year's work to build Healthcare.gov. So there were bidders to do more work on the site. The original 55.7 million does not appear to have been bid. So yes this was a no bid contract. Once they had built 55.7 million worth of the site they then put it out to bid and the company CGI Federal already building it won.

From the same article. Because "there are very strict regulations on sole-source contracts," an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity agreement makes it easier for the government to avoid running afoul of those requirements, said Sajeev Malaveetil, a director at the Berkeley Research Group, a procurement consultant. IT work is particularly suited to imprecise, open-ended contracts. "Agencies know that at some point they'll need IT services or system implementation," Malaveetil said. "ID/IQ contracts can often be for five or 10 years: the agency just keeps issuing delivery task orders, which fall under the base language of the contract." No other IT contractors have come forward to say they, too, bid on the contract to build Healthcare.gov.

The Republicans were excluded from writing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The law was not written in committee, it was created in partisan meetings. This was possible because Democrats controlled the house, senate, and the presidency. They also had a super majority in the Senate so they did not need a single Republican vote. They did it this way so they did not have to make any compromises to Republicans, they only needed to make compromises with Democrats to pass the law.

I used mod points in section which are now wasted, but it was worthwhile to correct this post. The Obama Administration only reviewed only a single bid for the Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2537194. Whether that constitutes a no bid contract can be argued, but that is usually what is meant by that phrase. If you do not consider that a no bid contract then Halliburton was not awarded a no bid contract in Iraq. Calling the statement that this is a no-bid contract a myth is at best disingenuous.

No health insurance does not equal death. No health insurance may equal very expensive bills, but you will receive necessary treatment by going to the hospital. I think the major issue is that we should separate catastrophic coverage from normal medical care. Getting a expensive illness is unlikely and the cost of removing that risk would not be that great if it was spread across the population. You should be able to choose to not have insurance for going to the doctor. If you are trying to do something risky (ie starting a business) you may need to limit every expense or you may not have enough money to get through the lean times. By requiring more and more money to be spent we are limiting the pool of people who can afford to start there own business. This is limiting the upward mobility of many of our citizens.