Obama's Trauma Team
February 28, 2014
This is the story of a team of coders and troubleshooters in elite technology circles who dropped what they were doing in various enterprises across the country and came together in mid-October to save Healthcare.gov. In about a tenth of the time that a crew of usual-suspect, Washington contractors had spent over $300 million building a site that didn't work, this ad hoc team rescued it and, arguably, President Barack Obama's chance at a health-reform legacy.
Obama's Trauma Team