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Implementing ObamaCare by Outsourcing Illinois Jobs to India
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 28, 2013 09:17am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 3, 2013 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "While everyone debates the policy points of ObamaCare, few understand that billions of dollars in IT contracts are wrapped inside the law. To meet federal mandates, states must upgrade their legacy Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). These IT contracts are some of the largest awards in state history.
Last week, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn became national news for circumventing a three year procurement process on up to $190 million in no-bid IT contracts. Now we find that one of the largest bid-contract MMIS awards will outsource state jobs to India.
In June, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn's administration awarded a ten year $71.4 million staffing contract to Cognizant Technology Solutions. Cognizant ranks in the national top 10 for procuring H-1B visa workers. Evidence shows that the company is staffing operational headquarters in Chennai and Bangalore, India for the Illinois work.
Our research at openthebooks.com highlights an issue that will be hotly debated in the contested Democratic primary for governor. How will Governor Quinn justify the outsourcing of state jobs to India at a time when Illinois has the second highest unemployment in the country?
State employees and managers willing to blow the whistle point out that these are not IT experts on H-1B visas coming in to save Illinois, but that "recent college graduates from India are very unlikely to be experts in Illinois-Medicaid." |
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