Healthcare.gov not fully ready for round two

Well, after nearly a year of significant repair efforts pushing the website’s price tag to roughly $840 million, HealthCare.gov still “won’t be perfect” and isn’t “fully ready” for next year’s open enrollment, officials said Thursday. During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing lawmakers grilled officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the website, the costs it has incurred over the last year, and its readiness for next year’s enrollment process. “If there’s going to be trouble, I think the committee wants to know,” Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) said at the hearing. Ahead of the hearing, the Government Accountability Office released a report raising concerns over the site’s current stability as well as detailing serious management and oversight issues at CMS that led to Healthcare.gov’s disastrous rollout last year.

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