[jcnnghm]

Did the people that charged $200 million to build healthcare.gov get to keep the money after the project failed? What about the people that allocated that money, do they still have their jobs?

It seems kind of disingenuous to ask engineers to do a "tour of duty" at a substantially reduced rate, when they could instead contract at normal rates and actually deliver working software. If you want to help the government, contract at normal rates and actually deliver high-quality, working software - don't take a pay cut to do it.

[kingkilr]

Small note: the $200 million dollar figure wasn't for all of healthcare.gov, it was for the _authentication system_.

[s73v3r]

If you do something and the client doesn't like it, do they get their money back? Of course not.

[jcnnghm]

There's a big difference between not liking something, and it not functioning.