President was told healthcare website would work, official says

Los Angeles Times ^ | November 3, 2013 | By Kathleen Hennessey

[Cincinatus' Wife]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama was assured that the healthcare insurance website was ready to launch on Oct. 1, even as private contractors and some administration officials knew the site had failed in early testing, a senior White House advisor said Sunday.

Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said the president repeatedly asked about the healthcare.gov website, a key piece of his 2010 healthcare overhaul legislation, and was told it would meet his expectations.

Along with the president, Pfeiffer hyped the website in the weeks before the troubled launch, promising it would “be a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government, but also in the private sector.”

“We did believe that,” Pfeiffer said on ABC's "This Week."

The "results do not match up to his expectations or the American people's expectations," he added. "It's inexcusable. There is no question about that.”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Be sure to get a load of the photo that goes with this piece.

[madison10]

Weird photo. Baby does NOT want to go there. LOL

[Paladin2]

A successful launch >> a launch.

[FlingWingFlyer]

In ObamaNation, you really shouldn’t believe anything that anyone says. We’re now a nation of lies.

[dontreadthis]

BS. it was rammed down our throats like everything else. he knew it had problems.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“... it would “be a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government, but also in the private sector.”

An absolutely true statement. I challenge anyone to find a “consumer experience” like this in government or the private sector. Probably the only time the Liar in Chief told the truth.

[a fool in paradise]

So the White House is saying that Obama knows what it’s like when someone on the public dollars lies to him.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"Obama's aides would not speak to the Trib with their names used for this story. The White House emailed transcripts of press conferences to defend the president's position, attributing the remarks to Obama: “The majority of people in the individual market today qualify for discounted or free health coverage when signing up for coverage through the Marketplace. One study found that 48 percent of people who buy insurance through the individual market will get a tax credit that averages at over $5,500. And 1 million in the individual market today will qualify for Medicaid in states that choose to expand it next year.”..... Obama's health promises backfire (WH aides w/o answers quote Obama who cites "one study")

[2ndDivisionVet]

The infantalization of the presidency. What will the culture shock be like if we ever get a responsible adult in that office again?

[Izzy Dunne]

a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government, but also in the private sector.

Nail.

Head.

BANG!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

NYTimes: Obama ‘misspoke’ when he claimed Americans could keep their health insurance "In its Sunday paper, The New York Times editorial board defended President Barack Obama from criticisms that he had intentionally misled the public when he had claimed if an individual likes their health insurance plan, they could keep their health insurance plan....................."

[atc23]

It doesn’t meet Bronco’s expectations. It doesn’t meet the expectations of the American people (yes it does- fail. Like everything else Obama touches)

Everyone else is fine with it. OK, then - we’re good

[Vince Ferrer]

It seems that people around him have learned that he, or more likely Jarret, doesn’t take bad news well, so they just stopped giving him any bad news.

[Amendment10]

I’m under the impression that everybody who works for bully Obama is scared to not tell him what he wants to hear.

[TigersEye]

Along with the president, Pfeiffer hyped the website in the weeks before the troubled launch, promising it would “be a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government, but also in the private sector.”

That is true. It might qualify as Greatest Consumer Fluster Cluck the world has ever seen.

[SandRat]

it would “be a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government

It was user hostile

[eyedigress]

“The Man who Doesn’t have a Clue” might make a good movie for some.

It 100% sucks for those of us that must live with it.

[a fool in paradise]

The NYet Times lied when they said that. Obama’s on tape saying that Cadillac coverage plans have to go, they are an inefficient use of money and wasterful.

[tet68]

the president repeatedly asked about the healthcare.gov website, a key piece of his 2010 healthcare overhaul legislation, and was told it would meet his expectations.

Failure was his expectation.