Health Exchange Tech Problems Point To A Thornier Issue

Elise Hu, writing for NPR’s All Tech Considered:

The primary contractor behind the federal health exchange software is a global firm called CGI Federal, which didn’t want to comment for this story. Johnson says it’s not that CGI or other contractors behind healthcare.gov are bad. They’re probably just not the best, because the best people at these tech solutions don’t bother applying.

“In order to fix these problems in the long term, what we’ve gotta do is encourage the federal government to open its doors to smaller, more agile vendors who are better at solving these larger problems,” Johnson says.

Like I said.