Eric Siu examines why governments keep hiring Deloitte despite repeated failures. The consulting giant has overseen $32 billion in California unemployment fraud, wrongful Medicaid denials in Tennessee, and canceled billion-dollar projects across multiple states, yet continues winning contracts.
It's a $74 billion cancer that's metastasized across America.
You want to know what the cancer is? I'm curious. Is it cancer itself or is there something else that I'm missing here?
So it's a $74 billion cancer that's metastasized across America. It's known as Deloitte.
Oh yeah, they got a lot of government contracts and then we never launched any of those things.
So you were never meant to hear the name Deloitte and you were never meant to know the government has wasted $74 billion by working with them quietly. Deloitte is one of the largest contractors, quote unquote, building American government IT systems. Medicaid enrollment, unemployment insurance, child welfare case management, food assistance Wait, this sounds like all the fraud that's happening in Minnesota right now, all this stuff. And actually all around the US right now. California's unemployment fraud disaster cost the state $32 billion, built by Deloitte. Tennessee kicking 250,000 children off Medicaid, built by Deloitte. The billion-dollar software project in California that got canceled after spending the budget— ding, ding, ding— Deloitte. I didn't know this.
I didn't know this either. So Deloitte is getting paid a lot of money and not building what they're supposed to be, or they're not building at all.
In every state they've provided services, 25 states, they had significant system failures, wrongful benefit denials affecting hundreds of thousands, fraud vulnerabilities that cost the taxpayer billions, projects that ran 5x over budget before getting canceled, and they kept getting hired by the government. If you want more insights like this on AI, marketing, and business, follow to learn more.
