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The ‘No Excuse’ Administration Has a Whopper of an Excuse for Obamacare
National Review ^ | October 23, 2013 | by John Fund

Posted on 10/23/2013 8:28:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Obama told the nation there is “no excuse” for the disastrous rollout of the health-care exchanges that are central to Obamacare.

But that didn’t stop Kathleen Sebelius, his secretary of Health and Human Services in overall charge of the project, from making excuses in a CNN interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta yesterday. She claimed to Gupta that President Obama hadn’t been told of any potential problems prior to the launch of the exchanges on October 1 — a dereliction of duty anyway one defines it.

But there was also this startling explanation of what went wrong at HHS:

“We talked about having testing going forward, and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product and, you know, a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years but we didn’t have five years. And certainly, Americans who rely on health coverage didn’t have five years for us to wait. We wanted to make sure we made good on this final implementation of the law.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chaunceygardnerobama; dryruntestfailed; failure; obamacare; obamacaregraphics; obamadoesntcare; obamainthedark; rinocare; sebeliuslies; socialism; thebuckstopswhere; whoispresident
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Repeal this POS.
1 posted on 10/23/2013 8:28:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If my employee didn’t tell me about a looming disaster as big as this, and it blew up in my face, I’d fire them. Immediately.


2 posted on 10/23/2013 8:30:15 AM PDT by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Communists have an affinity for 5 year plans that never pan out. They collect them like stacking dolls.


3 posted on 10/23/2013 8:31:14 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama was Hired just to Read Speeches


4 posted on 10/23/2013 8:31:55 AM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product and, you know, a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years but we didn’t have five years.

FIVE YEARS!?!?!?!

I could start now and have a system in place for $30,000,000 in 9 months.

5 posted on 10/23/2013 8:33:16 AM PDT by FatherofFive (MIslam is evil and must be eradicate)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just like any con job, it has to be done quickly before the mark realizes its a con job.

And Acorn is griping it needs money, the Muslim Brotherhood is griping they don’t control enough of America.


6 posted on 10/23/2013 8:35:00 AM PDT by Spartan302 (Spartans never quit, they come back later with more warriors. Asymmetrical Warfare.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like the Nuremburg trials. If the Fuhrer had only known, he never would have permitted it. We knew nothing about what was going on.


7 posted on 10/23/2013 8:35:16 AM PDT by BusterBear
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FIVE YEARS?

somehow I dint think time was the problem...

if theres ever been a GREAT example of socialist disfunction....THIS is IT.

Not even the low info types should be “able” to miss this


8 posted on 10/23/2013 8:36:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


9 posted on 10/23/2013 8:37:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Get our troops out of the middle east and let Allah sort out the Islamofascist losers!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the government cannot put up a working web site to enroll in Obamacare has anyone given a thought to how competent they will be administrating your health care. Imagine being brought by ambulance to a hospital emergency department bloodied and battered from a car accident and be denied care because your Obamacare coverage is somehow lost in the system.


10 posted on 10/23/2013 8:37:12 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: FatherofFive

SSSHHHHHHH!....don’t tell them!........


11 posted on 10/23/2013 8:37:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want......then pick up the pieces.)
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To: henkster

Of course he know.


12 posted on 10/23/2013 8:37:51 AM PDT by expat2
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To: henkster

“If my employee didn’t tell me about a looming disaster as big as this, and it blew up in my face, I’d fire them. Immediately.”

My boss would fire employees for saying, “I’m working on it.” He wanted to know what was being done and if there were problems, what action was being taken to rectify it.

Pretty simple really.


13 posted on 10/23/2013 8:38:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
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To: MeshugeMikey

sebilious: It won’t work boss

Obama: Good job girl!


14 posted on 10/23/2013 8:39:31 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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sebilious: It won’t work boss

Obama: Good job girl!


15 posted on 10/23/2013 8:39:32 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: FatherofFive

Thankfully, they’ll never contract with anyone competent.

Only incompetent cronies will ever get contracts.

So we’re assured of continued, rolling disaster.

Which is therefore the historic hallmark of 0bamaCare.

Which I love.


16 posted on 10/23/2013 8:40:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: expat2

exactly.. he knew... she isn’t fired because if he fires her, she talks... how could they not have known? they asked “is it ready?” and the answer was: “well, yes and no, their may be a few problems”....at which point he should have delayed....


17 posted on 10/23/2013 8:40:41 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: expat2

Amazing. Well, we wanted to give them at least ONE more year ...but they didn’t take that, I guess ...because they needed FIVE years ....riiiiigggghhht.


18 posted on 10/23/2013 8:41:38 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why didn’t they have Walmart do the system? They have the most sophisticated logistics system on the planet. They have enormous coverage. They have pharmacies and clinics in thousands of locations.


19 posted on 10/23/2013 8:42:17 AM PDT by BillM (.)
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So, she claims that they are too slow and stupid to come up with anything in 3 years.
They “could have built a product and, you know, a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years but we didn’t have five years.”

Let's give them 500 years and make them stick to it. If they finish the project before 500 years, then we are willing to wait.

20 posted on 10/23/2013 8:47:30 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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