Incoming health secretary Sylvia Burwell told a Senate committee that Healthcare.gov’s price tag would soon surpass the $1 billion mark. “It is my understanding that as of February 28, 2014, CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] has obligated a total of approximately $834 million on Marketplace-related IT contracts and interagency agreements,” she testified. Burwell then explained that the administration is seeking another several hundred million dollars to cover website development over the next fiscal year. “The president’s budget reflects a need for approximately $200 million for all Marketplace-related IT in FY 2015, some of which is funded through user fees.” The Daily Caller notes, “Standardized insurance forms and verification systems for premium subsidies still haven’t been finished, and in theory, will be set up by 2015 using the extra $200 million the White House has requested.” Spending a billion dollars on a website in just four years is bad enough; worse still, they still can’t make it work right. More…