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People in the News

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

People in the News

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Making measurable progress

healthy heartToday, Jeff Zients offered an update on our efforts to improve HealthCare.gov. In Jeff’s own words –

Overall, we’ve made measurable progress, as the changes and improvements we’ve made over the last few weeks are having a positive impact on system performance and user experience. The Marketplace system was stable all week, with no unscheduled outages. And for most users, speed and response times were generally good, and error rates were low. In total, we now have crossed more than 200 bug fixes off of our punch list.

Here is an update on where we are at the end of the week:

To read more visit: hhs.gov