As many of you know, the Healthcare.gov sight works only when it wants to, when it wants to work at all. Telecommunications giant Verizon is going to help the government help their online health system.
Verizon’s Enterprise Solutions have been asked by the US Department of Health and Human Services to help improve the troubled healthcare.gov site. The site is critical to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. According to Aneesh Chopra, who was once President Obama’s chief technology officer, “”There is an existing ‘best and brightest’ available to call in… Verizon is one of those already under contract.” Verizon also works for Medicaid and Medicare Services on information technology. Many in the online community are confident the problem will be fixed. However, neither Verizon nor Dept. of Health and Human Services are confirming anything.
I hope something gets done. I’m not going to rant about whether I agree with Obamacare or not. This isn’t the place or time. But I do know tens of millions of Americans were and are depending on this website. People’s lives are on the line. And what are these stories of cancer patients who couldn’t get their medicine during the shutdown? Look, Americans’ view on their government isn’t very good right now. One way they can start to make things right is to make this website right. It would be a great start. If Verizon can help do that, then God speed to them. But for them to be? preaching this system for years, and then for the healthcare.gov website to act like this, something has to be done.? Will Verizon be enough to get healthcare.gov up and running again?