The Connected Company behind Healthcare.gov

Democratic powerbrokers lobbied for QSSI’s big award.

Quality Software Services Inc., the company that built the data hub for Healthcare.gov, won its huge contract after its parent, UnitedHealth Group, enlisted two so-called super-lobbyists. These men are Democratic power-brokers: They have raised significant amounts of funds for Democratic causes and campaigns, and they maintain lots of friends in high places.

One of them, Jeff Forbes, has worked on behalf of UnitedHealth regarding Obamacare implementation since at least January 2011, first for Cauthen Forbes & Williams, and then for Forbes-Tate. Between the two firms, UnitedHealth has spent $600,000 for Forbes’s efforts since 2011.

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