Tech Surge Aims To Fix What Ails HealthCare.gov Site

After a month of haunting outages and outrage from disgruntled former supporters, the folks at HealthCare.gov -- the so-called Obamacare website -- are in need of a quick and serious fix. Oracle chief Larry Ellison said his company is pitching in to help fix what ails the government's health care Web site, shooting for improvement by November's end.

Is every day Halloween? That is what the team members of HealthCare.gov, the federal insurance Web site, might have asked last month as the site's October 1 debut enabling a historic health system overhaul and insurance signup turned into weeks of haunting outages and outrage from dismayed and disgruntled former supporters.

The confidence of many affordable plan seekers who had championed Obamacare as a great idea was shaken. Those trying to sign up in the first week experienced outages and long waits and many gave up trying to register.

The government has responded with a firm commitment that when the going gets rough they can really get going. They are determined to get this right. Now more details are emerging about the “tech surge” for HealthCare.gov announced on October 22 that is designed to usher in the fixes.