{"id":101667,"date":"2013-12-28T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/states-retaliate-against-obamacare-website-developers-halt-payments\/"},"modified":"2013-12-28T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T15:29:22","slug":"states-retaliate-against-obamacare-website-developers-halt-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/states-retaliate-against-obamacare-website-developers-halt-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"States retaliate against ObamaCare website developers, halt payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Several states that paid millions to set up ObamaCare exchange websites but got error-plagued systems in return are starting to fight back, halting payments to the contractors and weighing legal options.<\/p>\n<p>The same contractor that shouldered a large part of the blame for botching the federal HealthCare.gov is also under fire at the state level, where the company had an array of contracts to set up local ObamaCare exchange sites. CGI Group is facing angry officials in Massachusetts and Vermont who are cutting off payments in retaliation for widespread website problems.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts \u2013 whose government was one of the staunchest supporters of ObamaCare, and whose health plan arguably was the model for the law \u2013 is refusing to pay any more until a working website is delivered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/12\/27\/states-retaliate-against-obamacare-website-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several states that paid millions to set up ObamaCare exchange websites but got error-plagued systems in return are starting to fight back, halting payments to the contractors and weighing legal options. The same contractor that shouldered a large part of the blame for botching the federal HealthCare.gov is also under fire at the state level, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}