Read this and the two linked articles. While I doubt anyone can speak to meeting this deadline, the two very most important things have happened:
The manifestly not up to the job CMS is out at the "general contractor", QSSI will be adding that role to their work on the site.
Honesty has arrived: the unfortunately names Jeffrey Zients (since Zients is too close to clients and I generally think I've made a cut and paste error), rather than being a "consultant" as originally portrayed to no doubt avoid some feather ruffling seems to be, in Obama's style, seems to be the fix the site czar. And he critically he admits that sending bad data to insurers is not just a big problem, but at the very top of his "punch list" to get fixed.
Again, no one can predict if they can pull it off, but according to these articles the management problems that were ensuring it wouldn't get fixed are said to have been addressed. Since this includes a new contract with QSSI, which CMS proposed firing 3 days after launch, I don't think we can even said the White House et. al. obviously took too long to do it.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 10.3 ms ] threadThe manifestly not up to the job CMS is out at the "general contractor", QSSI will be adding that role to their work on the site.
Honesty has arrived: the unfortunately names Jeffrey Zients (since Zients is too close to clients and I generally think I've made a cut and paste error), rather than being a "consultant" as originally portrayed to no doubt avoid some feather ruffling seems to be, in Obama's style, seems to be the fix the site czar. And he critically he admits that sending bad data to insurers is not just a big problem, but at the very top of his "punch list" to get fixed.
Again, no one can predict if they can pull it off, but according to these articles the management problems that were ensuring it wouldn't get fixed are said to have been addressed. Since this includes a new contract with QSSI, which CMS proposed firing 3 days after launch, I don't think we can even said the White House et. al. obviously took too long to do it.