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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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To: Oldeconomybuyer

5 years to build a website.? um, we won ww2 in less time. This country is over.


41 posted on 10/23/2013 9:29:56 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thank you, Pres--ent Soetoro/Obama.
I am soooooooo grateful.

You have proven to me that indeed anyone can serve America.
You have proven anyone can mentor others.

Thankfully, we have you as a model ...

Praise be to God.

42 posted on 10/23/2013 9:32:43 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: FatherofFive
"I could start now and have a system in place for $30,000,000 in 9 months."

Doable, but that would be a tight schedule. I'd want 50 mil and 2 years.

43 posted on 10/23/2013 9:36:50 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There have been reports that the project was in trouble at least as far back as March. Must be a pretty thick bubble he lives in.


44 posted on 10/23/2013 9:44:01 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism is slavery.)
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To: TADSLOS

Indeed, it is all part of the serious professional communist looks just for cutes. These potemkin people with their cute do nothing government factories in ssearch of easy missions on the weak are unfathomably stupid.

And let us not be fooled by the media criticizing them because IT IS THE MEDIA WHICH EDUCATED THESE FOOLS AND CLAMORED FOR THEM AND THAT STUPID SOCIALIST LANGUAGE.


45 posted on 10/23/2013 9:46:20 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: LibsRJerks
They didn't want the one year, because Nov 2014 could be a bloodbath for Dems and the GOP could take the Senate and Obamacare may never make it into the future. Too big a risk.
Without it, the bloodbath may be bigger and Dems in purple states may be joining a move to kill this ugly thing.
46 posted on 10/23/2013 9:53:44 AM PDT by expat2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It doesn’t take 5 years to develop a website with this complexity. They’re saying they want to transform this country into a 100% marxist state in 5 years.


47 posted on 10/23/2013 9:58:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: molson209

Agreed. He’s a stooge.


48 posted on 10/23/2013 10:15:10 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (The issue isn't the issue-power is the issue.)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

I think 5 to 10 is just about the right amount of time....


49 posted on 10/23/2013 10:44:29 AM PDT by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: FatherofFive

Five years? You could launch, and do four redesigns and re-launches in that amount of time...


50 posted on 10/23/2013 10:45:21 AM PDT by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That dog won’t hunt!

Or in Obamese, that unicorn won’t fly.


51 posted on 10/23/2013 10:45:43 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Hessian

at minimum....


52 posted on 10/23/2013 10:46:21 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: I want the USA back

Remember that back of the website will be bureaucrats crafting an ever changing set of requirements. Obama wanted socialism, he got it. Now he’s watching it become as wildly uncontrollable as the situation of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.


53 posted on 10/23/2013 10:47:19 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Give the guy a break. After all he leads the Country in vacations and golf.

sarc off Sheldor~

54 posted on 10/23/2013 1:10:36 PM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

“Great pics and I am stealing the first one!!”

I stole er borrowed every picture.

Pass them around.


55 posted on 10/23/2013 2:53:06 PM 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: HotHunt


56 posted on 10/23/2013 3:08:48 PM 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: 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.

The reasonable conclusion is that Obama knew and did not care.

57 posted on 10/23/2013 3:11:20 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Producing Talk Show Prep since 1998.)
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To: VRW Conspirator

He ordered a you tube search for a video but none was found


58 posted on 10/23/2013 3:16:04 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Tenacious 1
I have held "Executive" management positions...

I take the position that I bring solutions to the bossman not problems. Problems that I bring to the bossman are ones that require solutions beyond my reach. At the level of Secretary of HHS with such a monumental roll out, jail is hardly good enough for her. 3 years and hundreds of millions of dollars? This is the apex of the socialists' achievement and she bungles it like an amateur. This is a boon for the republicans and a woeful demonstration of things to come.

59 posted on 10/23/2013 3:27:25 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Producing Talk Show Prep since 1998.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...if we had an ideal situation ... a five-year period of time

Communists always loved Five Year Plans in the past. There is no reason they still don't.

60 posted on 10/23/2013 4:16:14 PM PDT by Gritty (Progressives see themselves as saints, opponents as Satanists; that justifies anything-D. Horowitz)
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