White House Obamacare team: Best, brightest -- and a mystery

The “best and the brightest” also appear to be the cloaked and elusive.

President Barack Obama insists he’s culled the country’s tech elite to help repair the mangled Healthcare.gov website. But the administration hasn’t made its smart new crew public, and any of the tech companies or federal contractors involved remain tight-lipped. The silence may stem from a tangle of obstructions and fears -- from the complex legal requirements for federal procurement contracts to the increasingly volatile politics associated with Obamacare. But it’s not even clear to some in Silicon Valley how tech could save it.

“The system is already built; it’s already a disaster; so you’re going to bring in Silicon Valley to do what?” Marc Andreessen, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist, told POLITICO. “You could get Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos on a plane, but what are they going to do at this point?”