Last-Ditch Effort to Save Mass. Obamacare Website

Massachusetts officials are making a last-ditch effort to save the state's broken health insurance website.

Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday announced the state hired hCentive to revamp its Massachusetts Health Connector website, which has been plagued by technical glitches, according to the Boston Herald. The glitches have been so bad that many have had to fill out paper forms, the Boston Globe reported.

State officials earlier this year dropped CGI, the company that launched the health connector website—as well as the HealthCare.gov website, the federal portal that notoriously featured technical problems, too. Patrick earlier this year said the state was considering suing CGI.

The hope is that hCentive can fix the website in time for the open enrollment period, which starts November. If hCentive fails to fix the website, state officials will use HealthCare.gov, the Herald reported.