WASHINGTON — White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park declined to guarantee that HealthCare.gov would be fully functional by the end of November, the date by which the administration has said it plans to have the website to be running more successfully.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Obamacare enrollment website was unlikely to be fully functional by that November 30 deadline, citing an official with knowledge of the project.
Testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Park was asked by Oklahoma Republican Rep. James Lankford whether the site would be ready to go by the end of the month.
Park declined to give a yes or no answer.
“That’s the goal … we’re working very hard to get there,” Park responded. He did not specify further.
He noted that the goal was not to make the site “perfect,” but to get it to function well enough that it is useable.
Pressed on the subject again by Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold about whether that deadline was “realistic,” Park replied: “The team’s working really hard to meet that goal. That’s all I can say right now.”