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Identify key challenges associated with the implementation of healthcare.gov.

Healthcare. Gov website was more of a collection of websites and information systems

rather than a website. Information was obtained from very sensitive data sources. The existence

of many stakeholders also complicated the project. Project specifications to be followed when

carrying out the project were also accessed late by the developers. Additionally, Resignation of

the Secretary of Health and Human Services left developers with nowhere to get specifications

and requirements required to implement the project, (Borchers et al, 2014).

Analyze what went wrong.

The late arrival of project specifications delayed the developers to start working on the

project. These specifications also consisted of very detailed information that described the

regulations to be followed before starting the project. This process took wasted a lot of time

added on the one that was lost during implementation of changes in the project. However, with

the help of regulatory process; the 2400 pages were transformed in to 13,000 regulatory pages.

The changes that were requested by the Secretary for Health and Human Services to be

implemented, also took some time to be implemented relatively one month, (Borchers et al,

2014).

Why did it go wrong?

It went wrong due to the late arrival of specifications and requirements required for

testing. The developers had no capability of performing complete testing or even part of it. The
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fist testing occurred on October 1, 2013 after a number of changes were implemented as

requested by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, (Borchers et al, 2014).

What are the main issues pertinent for consideration from a policy implementation

perspective?

The main issues for implementation of the project were due to the high pressure from the

opponents of the Affordable care unit following the failure of the website implementation. A few

weeks ago, numerous Americans entailing the ones that had taken years without accessing

Health insurance security passed through their worst experience in an attempt to access

HealthCare.gov, (Borchers et al, 2014).

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Reference

Borchers, A.S et al. (2014).Website failure. Retrieved from https://www.healthcare.gov/