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>> let me emphasize private company as well as on the taxpayer dime this one. i want to reemphasize that. what is cgi? who are they? >> cgi is interesting. cgi federal is based in fairfax, virginia. they are a very major subcontractor and contractor of the u.s. government. they basically are a technology company that does the plumbing on all kinds of wonky complex complicated projects. they are owned in turn by cgi group which is based in montreal. it's a canadian company. they are a huge technology company. they are probably the biggest and right now most important company you have never hear...
Anybody wanted it to. >> reporter: the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius said it needed five years of construction. in reality, she said, quote, we had two years and almost no testing. this woman is a contractor hired to help set up the health care exchanges. >> i think it's not so much a surprise initially. i think the fact that there seems to be so much ongoing problems noted is more of the surprise. >> reporter: the largest contractor is cgi group. a canadian firm that developed much of the website's architecture. in a statement, cgi said it and other contractors are...
Doctor. there are at least two states plagued with very big malfunctions massachusetts and vermont. in fact reports say that officials are reviewing legal options and halting payments to cgi group that's a contractor hired to carry out the rollout. while the administration says the deadline prompted an influx to traffic at healthcare ghealt there are two sides to the story. they have a drop since the rollout of the health insurance program. >> we need to do things to improve healthcare in our country. the affordable care act is not the way to do it. for us to determine where to go from here on...