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Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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A bunch of the folks in this article are Y Combinator or Google alumni, and we're giving a talk on Saving HealthCare.gov next Thursday in SF for anyone who's interested:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-healthcaregov-tickets-118...

Let us know if you have questions! Or if you want to help.

UPDATE: we seem to be sold out. Trying to find a larger venue. In the meantime, feel free to sign up on the waiting list and you'll get an email as soon as we find a room with more capacity.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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> David Chang, a 2102 MIT graduate So that's how they're doing it, they got a programmer from the future to help!

Well the US federal government has more resources than most so it strikes me as a smart move to do this. I suspect they were holding off announcing that they've solved time travel closer to the congressional elections to help out the Democrats but the cats out of the bag now.

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> David Chang, a 2102 MIT graduate So that's how they're doing it, they got a programmer from the future to help!

Well the US federal government has more resources than most so it strikes me as a smart move to do this. I suspect they were holding off announcing that they've solved time travel closer to the congressional elections to help out the Democrats but the cats out of the bag now.

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Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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A bunch of the folks in this article are Y Combinator or Google alumni, and we're giving a talk on Saving HealthCare.gov next Thursday in SF for anyone who's interested: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-healthcaregov-tickets-118... Let us know if you have questions! Or if you want to help. UPDATE: we seem to be sold out. Trying to find a larger venue. In the meantime, feel free to sign up on the waiting list and yo…

Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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A bunch of the folks in this article are Y Combinator or Google alumni, and we're giving a talk on Saving HealthCare.gov next Thursday in SF for anyone who's interested: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-healthcaregov-tickets-118... Let us know if you have questions! Or if you want to help. UPDATE: we seem to be sold out. Trying to find a larger venue. In the meantime, feel free to sign up on the waiting list and yo…

Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(

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Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(

You're talking about a government website and not recording? I am a little worried that you don't think you can be candid about what is being done with our tax money.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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A bunch of the folks in this article are Y Combinator or Google alumni, and we're giving a talk on Saving HealthCare.gov next Thursday in SF for anyone who's interested: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-healthcaregov-tickets-118... Let us know if you have questions! Or if you want to help. UPDATE: we seem to be sold out. Trying to find a larger venue. In the meantime, feel free to sign up on the waiting list and yo…

So cool! Just got my ticket.
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