We return now to the continuing disaster that is the healthcare.gov website. Despite assurances going all the way back to the rollout of the website that the backend - the "guts" - of the website would be operational by first, January, then, mid March, and now, September, the facts are, as Hit and Run points out, a little different. The back end of Obamacare’s federal exchange—the guts of the system designed to communicate with and manage payments to health insurers—still isn’t finished, despite explicit promises from the administration that it would be finished months ago. And it may not be ready this year.  A document posted by the administration yesterday lists requirements for the next tech contractor to work on the federal insurance portal, according to Politico, which reports that whichever company wins the next contract, which would begin when the administration’s current contract with Accenture, the company that...(Read Full Post)