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Workers from tech giants Google, Red Hat, and Oracle have reportedly joined with the govenrment to help fix the notoriously broken Healthcare.gov website, that is a key portion of the Affordable Care Act. According to a tweet from CNBC, “experts” from the firms have been dispatched. It is not clear yet in what quantity, and what their role will be. The government needs the help, and it is good to see the technology community step up. After all, this is our domain. When the Affordable Care Act went live recently, its website that was to provide a central exchange failed, lagged, dropped users, and fed wrong information to insurance companies. It was a tectonically embarrassing moment for the government, and the President. Later, a ‘tech surge’ was called for. It appears that this is part of that effort. The government has promised that the website will be functional by the end of November. That gives the Silicon Valley cavalry just a single month to get the beast back in the pen.Also unclear at the moment is why these three firms have stepped up on and not others. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, and Twitter are other firms that could spare an engineer or two. Private tech employees helping the public government untangle a website built in part by Canadian contractors? The leaks from this saga are going to be amazing. Top Image Credit:Flickr
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Oracle, Red Hat, And Google Employees Pitch In To Fix Beleaguered Healthcare.gov, Reports Indicate
Workers from tech giants Google, Red Hat, and Oracle have reportedly joined with the govenrment to help fix the notoriously broken Healthcare.gov website, that is a key portion of the Affordable Care Act. According to a tweet from CNBC, “experts” from the firms have been dispatched. It is not clear yet in what quantity, and what their role will be. The government needs the help, and it is good to see the technology community step up. After all, this is our domain. When the Affordable Care Act went live recently, its website that was to provide a central exchange failed, lagged, dropped users, and fed wrong information to insurance companies. It was a tectonically embarrassing moment for the government, and the President. Later, a ‘tech surge’ was called for. It appears that this is part of that effort. The government has promised that the website will be functional by the end of November. That gives the Silicon Valley cavalry just a single month to get the beast back in the pen.Also unclear at the moment is why these three firms have stepped up on and not others. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, and Twitter are other firms that could spare an engineer or two. Private tech employees helping the public government untangle a website built in part by Canadian contractors? The leaks from this saga are going to be amazing. Top Image Credit:FlickrOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/V35cpL0HhrE/
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