McAfee Says He Spurned Request on HealthCare.gov
Monday, October 28th, 2013
John McAfee said he turned down a request from a House committee to remedy HealthCare.gov because it has "no interest in fixing anything."
The software pioneer, who started anti-virus company McAfee (now part of Intel) but gained notoriety as a "person of interest" in a bizarre murder case in Belize, said officials scoffed at his suggestion that the beleaguered website be rebuilt from scratch.
"They considered my solution political suicide," McAfee told USA TODAY in a phone interview Thursday.
The Republican-led House Committee on Energy and Commerce staff reached out to McAfee in an e-mail Oct. 14 from staff counsel Sean Hayes, hoping to arrange a meeting Thursday in Washington.
