Contractor says warned U.S. officials about healthcare website risks

(Reuters) One of the lead contractors responsible for developing the government's troubled healthcare website said on Thursday his company warned the Obama administration about rollout risks, while another expressed confidence that it will be fixed in time for benefits to go live on January 1.

Andrew Slavitt, executive vice president with the parent of Quality Software Services Inc, said his company told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of concerns about testing the Healthcare.gov website.

"We expressed all of those concerns and risks," Slavitt said in testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, without immediately elaborating on what those concerns were.

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