U.S. says no evidence Obamacare software written in Belarus

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. health officials have investigated whether some of the software used in computers at the heart of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform was written in Belarus, but have found no evidence of that being the case, a White House official said on Tuesday. A report of the probe, first published by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website late Monday, was seized on by Republicans who are campaigning to scuttle the reforms and say the website HealthCare.gov remains vulnerable to hackers four months after its botched roll-out on October 1. Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for Obama’s National Security Council, said investigators for the Department of Health and Human Services had “found no indications that any software was developed in Belarus.” The main contractor for the HealthCare.gov project, CGI Federal, said: “At no time during its work on HealthCare.gov did CGI subcontract any work to any entity or persons from Belarus, specifically from the high-technology park in Minsk.” It added in a statement: “All of CGI’s work for HealthCare.gov was performed in the United States.” QSSI, a unit of health insurer UnitedHealth Group which took over late last year to oversee repairs to the faulty website, declined to comment.