There's No Simple Fix To HealthCare.gov

Brian Proffitt | ReadWrite | October 25, 2013

Despite what some pundits and vendors are saying, there is no one fix for the Affordable Care Act's flagship website.

Despite what some pundits and vendors are saying, there is no one fix for the Affordable Care Act's flagship website.

As political caterwauling continues around the HealthCare.gov site's problems, and contractors for the site lay the blame at the feet of the Obama administration, pundits across all spectrums are weighing in on how things should have gone better.

The latest suggested solution? They shoulda used WordPress.

That was the suggestion made by Politico correspondent Dylan Byers, who cited five states that are using WordPress as the front-end for their own state online healthcare exchanges, as well as one state—Illinois—that is using the popular content management system within their own joint Federal-State exchange.