HealthCare.gov flop

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Health-care Web site’s lead contractor employs executives from troubled IT company

Jerry Markon and Alice Crites | The Washington Post | November 15, 2013

The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show.

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AP: Administration Was Told Healthcare.gov Had 'High' Security Risk Four Days Before Launch

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | October 30, 2013

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that the agency that oversaw the launch of the online health insurance marketplace Healthcare.gov received a memo warning of security risks shortly before the site was deployed. Read More »

Consumers Abandoning Healthcare.gov

Stephen Landman | thepeoplesvoice.org | October 29, 2013

Can you blame them? According to Digital Trends (DT), "more than $500 million" was spent creating "the digital equivalent of a rock." DT's source is the General Accounting Office (GAO). Most spending went for contracts, saying... Read More »

Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash

Eric Lipton, Ian Austen, and Sharon LaFraniere | The New York Times | November 22, 2013

On a sultry day in late August, a dozen staff members of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gathered at the agency’s Baltimore headquarters with managers from the major contractors building HealthCare.gov to review numerous problems with President’s Obama’s online health insurance initiative. The mood was grim.

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Why The Government Never Gets Tech Right

Clay Johnson | The New York Times | October 24, 2013

For the first time in history, a president has had to stand in the Rose Garden to apologize for a broken Web site. But HealthCare.gov is only the latest episode in a string of information technology debacles by the federal government. Indeed, according to the research firm the Standish Group, 94 percent of large federal information technology projects over the past 10 years were unsuccessful...

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