Heartbleed, the gaping flaw
After the bevy of problems Healthcare.gov encounteredgrant hackers access to over 70,0000 private records in just four minutes, at that.
Back in October when HealthCare.gov launched and then promptly became an enormous shit show, the Obama administration imposed December 1st as their deadline for getting the site’s act together. And today’s the day! So how’s stuff going?
We don’t need to tell you how much of a disaster Healthcare.gov has been
Calling the launch of Healthcare.gov a complete and utter disaster may sound a bit dramatic—but unfortunately, it’s also pretty accurate. With only six people able to actually enroll out of the 4.7 million unique visitors the site saw on launch day, something clearly needs to change. And since the government has its hands full with perpetually tripping over itself
The "tech surge" that President Obama promised to fix the very broken HealthCare.gov portal just got a lot more tech-savvy. According to Bloomberg, companies like Google, Oracle and Red Hat are now swooping in to lead the recovery effort. But is it enough?
The HealthCare.gov launch did not go so well. Some people paid the website a visit only to be greeted by a blank screen. Others found error messages or talked to misleading call center reps or had their personal information compromised. The whole thing is borked, and everybody knows it.
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been kind of a rough year in Washington. And it’s especially rough for one guy in particular. Freshly inaugurated and Instagram-friendly, President Obama promised a new, tech-savvy future for America. The latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek pretty much sums up how that’s working out.
First it was a bad script
If you’ve been watching C-SPAN—and who hasn’t?—you’ll know the House Energy and Commerce Committee started hearings yesterday with the government contractors for HealthCare.gov, the maybe-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time website for the Affordable Care Act.