Contractors describe scant pre-launch testing of U.S. healthcare site


  • World
  • Friday, 25 Oct 2013

Cheryl Campbell (L), Senior Vice President of CGI Federal confers with Andrew Slavitt, Executive Vice President for Optum/QSSI during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration launched its troubled healthcare insurance website after only a minimum of crucial system-wide testing, despite contractors warning officials repeatedly about performance risks, a congressional panel heard on Thursday.

Witnesses said the administration did not conduct end-to-end testing of the system's technology backbone until just the two weeks before one of the lynchpins of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare policy opened to consumers on October 1.

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