Americans won't soon forget the botched launch of Healthcare.gov. Nor will President Obama, since the fiasco turned his signature legislative achievement into a sideshow that took months to patch up. Eventually it got there with the help of some bright engineers from Google, Oracle, and other Silicon Valley companies. Now the same team that came to the site's rescue is determined to improve thing further for round two. Healthcare.gov's second enrollment period begins November 15th. Five months may seem plenty far off to those of us on the outside, but after such a nightmarish start, the "Marketplace 2.0" group isn't taking any chances. Wired has the full story on what you can expect from Healthcare.gov the second time around, and the underlying goal is to make everything more intuitive.

But nothing's quite as important as reliability. To help make Healthcare.gov less crash-prone, parts of the site will now be hosted by Amazon Web Services, the same powerful infrastructure that's the backbone of Netflix, Instagram, and other popular apps. Incorporating outside servers required a long certification process, but it should result in fewer people losing their entire application while trying to obtain something as essential as health insurance. For other details on how Healthcare.gov is constantly being massaged into a site that can match Obama's original vision, head to Wired.