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White House announces HealthCare.gov met repair goals

Kelly Kennedy | USA Today | December 1, 2013

The White House announced Sunday it has met its goal to make the Healthcare.gov website operate smoothly for most users by Nov. 30, 2013. Read More »

White House Launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ With HealthCare.gov Fixer At The Helm

Nancy Scola | The Washington Post | August 11, 2014

The White House on Monday announced that it is formally launching a new U.S. Digital Service and that it has hired to lead it Mikey Dickerson, an engineer widely credited with playing a central role in salvaging HealthCare.gov after its disastrous launch...

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White House Names Former Microsoft Exec To Run Healthcare.gov

Dan Mangan | CNBC | December 17, 2013

Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said. Read More »

Why A ‘Tech Surge’ Isn’t Going To Save HealthCare.gov

Christina Farr | VentureBeat | October 22, 2013

Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promised it would recruit the ”best and brightest” to fix HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s online insurance marketplace that’s part of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), which has been plagued by technical defects... Read More »

Why Cloud Hackers Could Come For Your Health Data Next

Todd Campbell | The Motley Fool | September 14, 2014

The revelation that Community Health Systems  (NYSE: CYH  ) servers were hacked, resulting in the loss of 4.5 million patient records, and that a server for the Affordable Care Act's healthcare.gov website was breached, puts the issue of healthcare privacy front and center even as industry watchers warn that health care security is far too lax...

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Why Delaying Obamacare Has Insurers Freaking Out

Sam Baker | Nextgov | October 31, 2013

The health insurance industry already had plenty to freak out about with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Simply complying with the law is a massive undertaking, never mind the terrible HealthCare.gov debut. But the botched rollout has produced a new source of anxiety for insurers: the growing bipartisan support for delaying parts of the act’s implementation. Read More »

Why Did Healthcare.gov's Source Code Mysteriously Vanish From Public View?

Greg Sandoval | The Verge | October 14, 2013

One of the few trouble-free areas on Healthcare.gov is the site's front end — the information pages where visitors can learn about health plans available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In contrast to the glitchy backend systems that have prevented many of the more than 14 million visitors from shopping for health insurance the past two weeks, [these pages...] were built on open-source code. Now, that code doesn't appear to be so open. Read More »

Why Didn't The White House Use WordPress?

Dylan Byers | POLITICO | October 24, 2013

HealthCare.gov is "a disaster," "a failure" and "excruciatingly embarrassing" for the Obama administration. Why didn't they just use WordPress? Read More »

Why Healthcare.gov Has So Many Problems

Steven Bellovin | CNN | October 15, 2013

No one should be surprised by the technical problems that have plagued the new health insurance exchange website, HealthCare.gov, which allows millions of Americans to sign up and buy health coverage. Angry, OK. Disappointed, of course. But surprised? Don't be. Read More »

Why Healthcare.gov Sucks? Because They Hired Political Cronies, Not Internet Native Companies To Build It

Mike Masnick | Techdirt | October 10, 2013

There's been plenty of talk lately about just how screwed up the launch of Healthcare.gov has been. While any massively large-scale internet launch is likely to suffer some problems, the level of disaster on this particular project has been quite impressive. This has led some to wonder why this happened [...]. Read More »

Why Healthcare.gov Went Wrong—A Lack Of “Agile”

Tim Fernholz | Quartz | October 25, 2013

In 2010 [...] Barack Obama told a group of CEOs that the government’s “best efforts are thwarted because the technological revolution that has transformed our society over the past two decades has yet to reach many parts of our government.” He outlined priorities to make the government a better user and buyer of information technology. Now, his administration’s signature initiative is embroiled in a massive IT project gone wrong... Read More »

Why Obama’s Tech-Savvy Team Couldn’t Make Obamacare Glitch-Free

Juliet Eilperin | Washington Post | October 9, 2013

As the online rollout of the Affordable Care Act continues to be plagued by glitches, many of the president’s allies and foes are wondering the same thing: how could the most tech-savvy White House in history launch a flawed Web site? Read More »

Why States Are Doing Obamacare Better

Sam Baker | Nextgov | October 24, 2013

A small—and somewhat surprising—handful of states are implementing Obamacare much more effectively than the Obama administration. Read More »

Why The Government Unpublished The Source Code For Healthcare.gov

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | October 18, 2013

When the government first launched Healthcare.gov as an informational site back in June, open source advocates were delighted to hear that the code would be available for anyone to see on the public programming library GitHub... Read More »

Why the Healthcare.gov Launch of Obamacare Was Doomed To Fail

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | October 8, 2013

The more we learn about the development of Healthcare.gov, the worse the situation looks. The site has been serving myriad errors since it launched [...]. While the administration is claiming a 50 percent reduction in wait times after adding new servers, other serious issues persist. Read More »