🇺🇸 United States · 2014 · 💻 Tech & systems
A website to shop for health insurance. It crashed on launch day in 2013.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
US$1.7 billion contracts by 2014
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What actually happened
HealthCare.gov had a troubled launch in October 2013. The HHS inspector general’s office estimated in August 2014 that contracts related to building it had cost about $1.7 billion.
Source: Snopes ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.