White House names former Microsoft exec to run Healthcare.gov

[PoliticAverse]

Source: CNBC

The White House is rebooting HealthCare.gov's repairman.

Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said.

DelBene is replacing management guru Jeffrey Zients, who was tapped by President Obama in October to manage the emergency repair job on that then-badly crippled website.

The switch comes at a critical time for HealthCare.gov, which has seen dramatic performance improvements under Zients. The site, which had very low enrollment levels in the first two months of operation because its tech troubles, now is engaged in a furious effort to sign up as many people as possible in new Affordable Care Act insurance by the New Year

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[riqster]

1. We are SO fucked. nt

[Dopers_Greed]

2. Expected Onion article

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Glad we put the cart before the horse

makes much more sense doing it this way. In bizarro world.

[patricia92243]

4. Volunteer job? That dosn't even make sense.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Businessinsider.com article on the change...

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-kurt-delbene-obamacare-website-healthcare-gov-2013-12

[Jesus Malverde]

6. DelBene, husband of U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene of Washington

Seems like he's on the right team.

[Jesus Malverde]

7. I'm curious if his "volunteer status"

makes him exempt from congressional oversight. It's strange they make a big deal out of paying him, but he returns the salary, etc.

[LynneSin]

8. I thought our goal was to make this website work...

just saying!

[Jackpine Radical]

9. They're gonna rename the healthcare plan.

The 2 leading contenders are "Healthcare Me," and "Vista."


Remember, Bill Gates did not invent "Ctrl-Alt-Del." He just made it popular.


Those Republican critics were right all along: The plan includes a Blue Panel of Death.


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