Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov
I've been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums.<p>I'll always remember what Mikey told us in December, after the site was back up, could handle a non-trivial amount of traffic, and people who wanted health insurance could finally get it:<p>"1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're doing here, 5,000-10,000 people will live to see the end of 2014. You should be proud of what you've done, but we should also all be grateful to have this opportunity."<p>We're all grateful to be here, but there's a hell of a lot more work to be done.<p>If any of you out there are an amazing software engineer or SRE, and want to help make our government work better, please  shoot me an email: brandon@hcgov.us!