Thread: Pretend Work – Obamacare Processors Paid $17 Hour To Just Act Like They’re Working

[Watch] Pretend Work – Obamacare Processors Paid $17 Hour To Just Act Like They’re Working

Posted on 15 May, 2014 by Rick Wells



Station KMOV reports on two obamacare processing facilities in the St. Louis area in which workers were paid to pretend they were on the phone, helping customers which did not exist. Paula Bujewski says, in her opinion, somebody has figured out how to make a lot of money off of obamacare, for doing nothing.
She worked for Cognosante, which shared a facility with Serco, both contractors for the Affordable Care Act. Bujewski says she and other employees questioned their supervisor as to why there were so many employees working full eight hour shifts when there was no work to justify it. The response from the supervisor was, “If we process one or two of the applications a month, then we’ve done our job.”
Serco’s contract is worth $1.2 billion, a lot of money with expended with little to show for it.
Bujewski said the workers were told to come in dressed professionally and to sit at their desks and act like they were working. That is exactly what she said they did, characterizing her day as make believe work.
Bujewski quit to take a lower paying job, saying she needed to be doing something that mattered rather than milking the system for a nice paycheck. The reporter says that others have come forward with a similar story to tell.
Maybe the official name for obamacare should be changed to “The Affordable Care Act Like You’re Working.”



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Can we finally admit that the Affordable Care Act has been a scam from the beginning? [Story below] Now they're paying people to do nothing - is anyone shocked?



ObamaCare Workers Paid to do Nothing: Surprised? - Joe For America

A former employee at an Affordable Care Act processing center in Missouri recalls...
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ObamaCare Workers Paid to do Nothing: Surprised?

Posted by Rodney Lee Conover on May 15, 2014 in Health Care, ObamaCare

A former employee at an Affordable Care Act processing center in Missouri recalls having nothing, or so little work to do that she played board games while some co-workers slept.

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Lavonne Takatz, 42, worked at the center in Wentzville from October to April.
“We played Pictionary. We played 20 Questions. We played Trivial Pursuit,” she told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wednesday.
Such allegations have spurred members of Missouri’s congressional delegation to call for investigations of the taxpayer-funded center in Wentzville, one of three nationally that are contracted to process paper applications for the new health-care law.
The federal government, under the auspices of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gave a five-year, $1.2 billion contract last year to Serco Inc., a processing and security group, to process paper applications for health insurance from the 36 states with federal health insurance exchanges.
Though most sign-ups for insurance under the new marketplace were to be made online, officials at the time estimated that a third of the 20 million people expected to apply would submit paper applications.
Allegations that employees were doing little or no work, first reported by KMOV (Channel 4) on Monday, drew a flurry of responses from Missouri’s delegation Wednesday.
Takatz, who lives in Wentzville, said she originally took the job to help people obtain health care.
“I feel guilty for working there as long as I did,” she said. “It was like I was stealing money from people.”
Takatz said that when she and other employees looked for applications to process, they called it fishing because they were trying to catch an application before someone at another processing center could.
Employees refreshed their pages so frequently that Serco limited them to one refresh per 10 minutes. If workers refreshed more than that, they were called into a supervisor’s office and told to stop.
In the whole month of December, she said, she processed about six applications.
Workers became so bored and hostile, Takatz claims, that Serco began providing books to read. Employees were told they could not speak to the media, even if they left the company.

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