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White House Accused Of Letting Politics Influence HealthCare.gov Design

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 22, 2013

Congressional overseers made their first move to apportion blame on Monday for the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov, the government’s online health insurance marketplace, while the White House turned to social media to drum up public support for the ailing and embattled website. Read More »

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 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 Costs Are A Civil Rights Issue

Alicia Caramenico | FierceHealthcare | August 29, 2013

Fifty years since Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, healthcare spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product has jumped from 5.5 percent in 1963 to 18 percent today. 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 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 Is American Health Care So Ridiculously Expensive?

Derek Thompson | The Atlantic | March 27, 2013

It would be nice to say that high prices are a bug of our medical system. But they're a feature. They're part of a choice we've made. Read More »

Why Not Medicaid For All?

Ross Douthat | New York Times | October 22, 2013

My Sunday column on the potential consequences of Obamacare’s botched rollout ended by sketching a scenario in which the program’s Medicaid expansion is deemed a success while its reform of the individual market leads to much-higher-than-expected costs and much-lower-than-expected participation rates. This combination would no doubt be politically helpful to the Republican Party in the short run, but (I argued) it would actually leave liberals with a fairly clear path forward... 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 Rate Shock Might Matter

Ross Douthat | New York Times | June 6, 2013

There has been a lengthy, multi-sided debate in the last week or so, with much ad hominem and gnashing of teeth, over whether California’s insurance premiums are going up because of Obamacare, and if so what that might mean for the law’s success or failure... 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 Tech Guys Think They Can Sell Health Insurance

Patrick Clark | Bloomberg Businessweek | July 24, 2013

When New York State announced the participants in its Obamacare exchange last week, there was an unfamiliar company on the list: Oscar Health Insurance. [The] company is seeking to solve a challenge few tech entrepreneurs have tackled... Read More »