Next month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will replace CGI Federal, the Canadian IT contractor that botched the construction and launch of the Obamacare website, with Dublin-incorporated tech services firm Accenture to smooth things out.

The Obama administration announced on Monday that health insurance plans must cover birth control with no copays, among other reproductive health care services, as preventative care for women. The requirement will apply to health care plans beginning on or after August 1, 2012. The announcement comes just a month after Health and Human Services released a recommendation that sought to expand preventative services for women under Obama's health care law.