It's the Corporate Model

In a 14-page report prepared by consultants from McKinsey & Co. (PDF) in March 2013, the [Obama] administration was alerted that the HealthCare.gov website had not undergone enough end-to-end testing and that the program’s “significant dependency” on contractors was problematic.

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The Energy and Commerce Committee indicated that key administrators from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including CMS chief Marilyn Tavenner and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, were briefed on the McKinsey report in late March and early April.

  alJazeera

But they took the Microsoft approach: roll it out and let the consumer find the bugs.

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., blasted the Obama administration over the McKinsey report, saying in a statement that “on April 18, Secretary Sebelius appeared before our committee, looked us in the eye and repeatedly testified everything was ‘on track and on time.’ We now know that was not the case and the secretary was aware implementation was in trouble.”

I’ll be expecting her to need to spend more time with her family here soon.