Not too long ago the folks at the "hip design house" Teal Media were proud of the role they played in developing the Dear Leader's ObamaCare exchange website. As depicted above, they displayed it prominently on the front of their homepage. But as the ever-vigilant BuzzFeed discovered yesterday, the times they are a-changing.
Visit the website of Michigan-based design firm Teal Media today and you'd never know designers there helped create HealthCare.gov, the troubled online portal for Obamacare.
Just a few days ago, the site looked very different. Teal Media's homepage featured its work on Obamacare prominently, placing a link to the firm's work on one of the most well-known websites in America front and center. Now that link, as well as the page devoted to Teal's work on HealthCare.gov, have been removed.
Here's a cached version of what the homepage used to look like. And here's a cached version of Teal's page devoted just to its work on HealthCare.gov. That page has been deleted.
Teal Media doesn't seem interested in talking about its work on HealthCare.gov. A woman who answered the phone at the company's headquarters immediately referred BuzzFeed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health And Human Services (HHS) before a single question was asked. CMS is listed as Teal's client on the firm's now-erased HealthCare.gov page.
When asked about the changed content on the Teal Media site, the woman said that was done "in consultation with HHS," and again referred a reporter to CMS.
A CMS spokesperson declined to comment on the record.As you've probably already figured out, Teal managed to make themselves look even more foolish by switching back to the original screens after BuzzFeed posted the article.
Update: Teal Media put Heathcare.Gov references back on their website following this report.Heh.
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