Thursday, October 31, 2013

Send in the Reinforcements: Obamacare Brings in Google

From the "they should have done this in the first place" department we have Obamacare scrambling to get some tech help to fix their website.

An engineer from technology giant Google has been recruited to help fix HealthCare.gov, the new federal insurance exchange website.

Software companies Red Hat and Oracle will also assist, according to Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has coordinated the development of the site that has experienced numerous problems in its first month of operations.

If the Government approached Google from the beginning to bid for the website maybe it would have been working decently. Instead it has been the worst product roll out in decades.

I was watching a Bloomberg video that had some talking head going on about Obama being totally engaged in the website fix it process. It gave me a mental image from the movie Lincoln where the president is waiting in in the telegraph room for news from the war. Instead it is Obama looking at an iPad and it says "error 404, webpage not found." He looks up and says "the Obamacare dream has died today" and slumps into a chair as the iPad slips from his nerveless fingers.

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