It may be right that open sourcing the code behind healthcare.gov and crowd sourcing improvements to it could potentially result in desirable outcomes, but it i

It may be right that open sourcing the code behind healthcare.gov and crowd sourcing improvements to it could potentially result in desirable outcomes, but it is very unclear whether that is an available option in legal and practical terms. Legally, because support is likely to be governed by the terms of the relevant contracts, and practically, because every pull request will need to be reviewed by a person with expertise who has been engaged for that purpose (which suggests, contrary to the petition, that the problem should be solved by a better and cheaper contractor). Without that foundation, the petition does not seem to have much utility, notwithstanding its 1000 signatures.