House Republicans are pushing for a full accounting of how much the state's Obamacare website fiasco will cost taxpayers, suggesting outgoing Gov. Deval Patrick may leave the next administration holding the bag.
"The reality is we're going to have a new governor in January, so some of these costs associated with this could still crop up," said House Minority Leader Bradley Jones (R-North Reading). "Let's have some more public data."
Jones filed an amendment to the House budget — where debate is set to begin Monday — that would force the Patrick administration to compile a cost study of the entire website mess, including the price tag for temporary health insurance coverage, by July 31.
The Health Connector website has been a complete disaster for the Patrick administration, creating long delays in signing up Bay Staters for health insurance plans. Patrick eventually hired a web czar, Blue Cross/Blue Shield executive Sarah Iselin, to repair the site and ease a massive backlog of enrollees.
The state fired web developer CGI earlier this year amid finger-pointing over the execution of a $69 million contract to build the website.
It's unclear whether Democrats will sign on to Jones' budget amendment, but the chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Health suggested the GOP is trying to politicize the website fiasco and maintained a cost study isn't necessary.
"There are 50 million amendments from the Republicans relative to cost and analyzing how much we're spending," said state Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez (D-Jamaica Plain). "How this fits in, I'm not sure, but at the end of the day, we do want to make sure the Connector is doing everything it needs to do to make sure people are covered, and at the same time, we will know how much it costs, because eventually data will get out there."
In a statement, Secretary of Administration & Finance Glen Shor said he already detailed some of the costs during testimony at a State House hearing earlier this month and that the total price tag of temporary coverage will be ready by July.
"During the hearing, administration officials committed to fulfilling the committee's request of providing additional financial information related to transitional coverage and other financial elements going forward," said Shor.
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