Busy couple weeks so no time for my own thoughts but here’s a bibliography of posts about the problems with HealthCare.gov and some suggestions on how to fix them.
- Sarah Kliff (10/26), Obamacare’s tech problems, explained in two minutes
- David Auerbach (10/12), Problems with healthcare.gov: Cronyism, bad management, and too many cooks
- Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin (11/2), HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs
- Memo from David Cutler on health reform implementation (5/11/2010)
- Ezra Klein (10/14), Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster (Thought #5 is the keeper.)
- Ezekiel Emanuel (10/22), How to Fix the Glitches
- Jonathan Cohn (10/18), The Truth About the Obamacare Rollout: The feds botched the website. But the states are doing much better
- Rusty Foster (10/21), Healthcare.gov: It Could Be Worse
- Clay Johnson and Harper Reed (10/24), Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right: Getting to the Bottom of HealthCare.gov’s Flop
- Paul Ford (10/16), The Obamacare Website Didn’t Have to Fail. How to Do Better Next Time (an argument for open-source software)
- Lydia DePillis (10/27), Reader mail: Can Agile development work for government, anyway?
- NY Times (10/20), Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
- NY Times (11/6), Sebelius Rejects Bipartisan Calls for Delay in Health Law