If this tool is trying to set uhg up to be a single payer, would the US gov allow offshore labor? A lot of accounts stipulate onshore only...
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I was there in the beginning for Tricare, we got it working but eventually lost the contract because we were too expensive and couldn’t deliver on our contract, too much rework! I was also there at what seems to be the end of the State exchanges. Instead of building the business and getting more states onboard to our service, we were losing the biggest state client and fighting to keep the few we had left. Similar to the military, the state exchanges were/are a top heavy, bloated organization with many project managers who couldn’t accurately scope a development effort to save their lives! The state clients experienced project delivery that was constantly delayed and not delivering what the client wanted. The cherry on top was the OFIE leaders always blaming the client. Heads rolled, including mine, but they should have fired the entire organizational leadership starting at the top for sheer incompetence and failure to perform and grow the state exchange service! So will the government turn to UHG in a single payer system? Probably because they are too big to fail. But this company violated military requirements (STIGs)to only allow employees with a DOD security clearance to have access to the data. The state exchanges also had this requirement and yet UHG has broken the law by allowing their subcontractors and offshore IT support groups potential access to the medical data. So will they follow the letter of the law in the future? Not unless they are forced to!
It’s obvious that no single payer pilot will go to an organization that enabled hacks on the scale of UHG.
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If it's a .gov contract, there will be restrictions in place on off shoring work tied to that contract. It may not be a 100% forbade, but there will be restrictions. Keep in kind that there are currently roughly 2 million Federal employees in total. And roughly another 10 million roles currently classified as "contractors."
Plenty of room for ~50-100k more for a single payer system, and I think think UHG could probably do it with <25k dedicated roles.
Why would they care if labor is offshore. It would all be contracted out to the lowest bidder just like the postal system does for long haul trucking to drivers who dont have a cdl and carriers who dont even have insurance until in an accident occurs. Offshoring would be a minor concern. Banking system allows your financial records to be shot all over the globe already.
God help us if UHG becomes a single payor! Here comes socialism……
UHG is the obvious corporate partner for any single payer program in the US, even for a pilot program. .Gov/CMS doesn't have the knowledge or resources to pull off anything using a new or existing agency. Humana, BCBS, etc aren't even close to having the bandwidth/tech required for the series of deployments that a program like that would require.
What's funny is that UHG leadership seems to be dead set on destroying or dispersing their hard won institutional knowledge, degrading their ability to even attempt such a project.