The U.S. Government has recruited engineers from top companies like Google to fix the Obamacare website.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which is also commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare", is a federal statute in the U.S. signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The ACA together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act signifies the most noteworthy governing overhaul of the country's healthcare system since Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
The ACA key aim is to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance in the U.S. and at the same time lower the uninsured rate by expanding public and private insurance coverage. The law also needs insurance companies to cover all applicants within the new minimum standards and also offer the same rates irrespective of previous conditions or gender of the applicant.
The HeathCare.gov website has been facing issues, due to which visitors are unable to access details on Obamacare. Many visitors have complained that the Obamacare site has timed out, did not load and failed to register users.
Engineers from Google and Oracle are said to be working on the website to offer a better experience to the visitors. Michael Dickerson, who is a site reliability engineer with Google and is currently on leave from the company, will help fix Obamacare website.
"There is a single Google employee, who is on leave, working on the HealthCare.gov site," said a Google spokesman. "This is a personal endeavor, not a Google-sponsored effort. The company is not involved."
Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee has also expressed concerns regarding technical glitches, which surround the Obamacare site.
"The evidence is mounting that the website did not go through proper testing, including critical security testing, and that the administration ignored repeated warnings from contractors about ongoing problems," said Issa in a statement.
The U.S. Government will hope that bringing in expertise from well-known companies will help develop the Obamacare website and offer visitors with a seamless browsing experience.
It will be interesting to see how swiftly engineers from top companies such as Google, can fix the issues on the Obamacare site.
