Obamacare website gets new tech experts; oversight pressure grows

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Obamacare website gets new tech experts; oversight pressure grows

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/google-oracle-red-hat-help-obamacare-website-fix-184708870--sector.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/y1Dz30OCEubQ8LxfHVws7A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-31T184708Z_1_CBRE99U1G6T00_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEALTHCARE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Janet Perez oversees specialists help callers with health insurance, at a customer care center in Providence, Rhode Island" align="left" title="Janet Perez oversees specialists help callers with health insurance, at a customer care center in Providence, Rhode Island" border="0" /></a>By Susan Cornwell and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said it has brought in experts from top technology companies including Google Inc and Oracle Corp to fix the HealthCare.gov website, as Republicans press for details about the botched October 1 launch that prevented millions of Americans from signing up for new insurance plans. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it had added dozens of technology experts and engineers to its round-the-clock effort to fix the technical glitches on the site that is key to the implementation of President Barack Obama's healthcare restructuring law. Giving some of the first details of who might be leading the tech fix, HHS officials identified two experts by name: Michael Dickerson, a website reliability engineer on leave from Google, and Greg Gershman, a Baltimore-based innovation director with the firm Mobomo and who previously worked for the White House and the General Services Administration. &quot;We are doing everything we can to assist those contractors to make HealthCare.gov a highly performant, highly reliable, highly secure system.&quot; Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Thursday in Redwood City, California.</p><br clear="all"/>

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