Maryland health exchange director resigns after questions about vacation [after website failed]

Baltimore Sun ^ | December 7, 2013 | Erin Cox

[grundle]

The director of Maryland's troubled health insurance exchange resigned Friday amid ongoing technical problems and questions about a Caribbean vacation she took while the online marketplace faltered.

Rebecca Pearce, hired two years ago to build a $107 million exchange, leaves her post as officials struggle to repair the system that launched Oct. 1.

The exchange's rocky start and low enrollment have become ammunition for political attacks on Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who was tasked by the governor with overseeing the state's implementation of the federal health care reform law.

The board of the Maryland Heath Benefit Exchange accepted Pearce's resignation during an emergency session Friday night. In a statement, Joshua Sharfstein, the state health secretary and board chairman, said Pearce "worked tirelessly and with tremendous dedication."

Pearce, whose starting salary in 2011 was $175,000, will be replaced on an interim basis by Carolyn Quattrocki, a top adviser to Gov. Martin O'Malley.

As state lawmakers grilled Sharfstein on Nov. 26 on why the health exchange was still broken, Pearce was on a week's vacation in the Cayman Islands.

During the trip, she could not be reached by phone, email or text, the health department said Friday.

[Rennes Templar]

Pretty standard m.o. for players in Obama’s insurance scam.

[Seaplaner]

When the Obamacare [sic] going gets tough, the not-so-tough Obamacare [sic] exchange directors slip away to the Cayman Islands.

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[freedumb2003]

I bet she will never miss a meal, a mortgage payment or a Academy payment for her kids’ private school.

People like her, once they latch onto the open wound or Johnson of a liberal edifice just move from place to place.

They are never rejected completely by the host.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

So, I guess the buck stops with R. Pearce. Gov. O’Malley your hands are clean I’m sure. Bet you didn’t even know they were setting up an exchange until you read it in the paper.

[cloudmountain]

He's a pimp. What ELSE can you expect from a pimp?
THANK YOU, Don Corleone.

[Deagle]

I hate Maryland! I lived in Maryland. Had to work in Maryland. Their leftist policies and high taxes are awful. I’m glad to be gone from Maryland!

Back to Texas.

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

Ever notice when bad news for us from the gov comes obozo very conveniently is on vacation and looks like he is leaving for 17 days shortly. Incoming! Look out below! Merry Christmas!

[oldbrowser]

People like her, once they latch onto the open wound or Johnson of a liberal edifice just move from place to place.

Fellow travelers take care of each other. When one takes a fall for the cause, another one will be there to cushion the fall.

[logi_cal869]

Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone, and another one gone

Another one bites the dust

Hey, I'm gonna get you too

Another one bites the dust

How do you think I'm going to get along,

without you, when you're gone

You took me for everything that I had,

and kicked me out on my own

Are you happy, are you satisfied

How long can you stand the heat...

Fitting.

[goodnesswins]

The Oregon Exchange is a complete failure and they spent $300 million on it....and the Director just took PERSONAL LEAVE...

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Vacation in the Cayman Islands? I’ll bet she was hauling a bag to a bank.

[Gaffer]

Pearce was on a week's vacation in the Cayman Islands.

Well, she was there seeing to her offshore account.

[Liz]

Maryland's multi-million dollar healthcare exchange director resigns after questions about vacation in the Cayman Islands.... (setting up offshore accounts for kith and kin......hauling bagsful of cash to banks).

Dam right----can you say conspiracy, collution, money-laundering and tax evasion?

OBAMACARE FINANCING THE PERMANENT DEMOCRAT MAJORITY? Obama was jet-streaming hundreds of billions to state exchanges----and used this same scam w/ earlier TARP bailouts---then-NJ Dem Gov Jon Corzine got $18.3 Billion TARP which promptly disappeared (Corzio was running for reelection but lost).

Remember that when they landed in DC, Obama sent his COS Rahm Emanuel to "oversee" the US Treasury (TARP source of funds)-----it was unusual for a prez COS to held two jobs.

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THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR---COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE When he went to jail, L/E uncovered some $8.9 billion funneled to Ponzi King Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......consisting of a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances.

But the purpose of this complex architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny and generate more payoffs.

A "philanthropist" who invested foundation money with Mr. Madoff, and hedge fund money managers, are among at least eight Madoff investors and associates being scrutinized by the US attorney, along w/ Madoff family members and employees.

[Liz]

"LETS MAKE A DEAL, DEMOCRATS." Vote aye now.
When the millions start rolling in, you get a piece of the action."

SEN. BEN CARDIN (Dimwit-Md.): “For the people of Maryland, the healthcare bill will provide a rational way in which they can maintain their existing coverage…” (Sen. Cardin, Congressional Record, S.13798, 12/23/09)

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Mary Landrieu is running in a state where Obama, and his health care reform, are highly unpopular .....but they got her on tape in the well of the Senate parroting Obama's infamous lie to so-called 'sub-standard' policy-holders, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

Landrieu musta agreed w/ Obomba that nationalizing 1/6 of our economy is a good idea. Course, Landrieu selling her aye vote for a "price" was a BIG help.

THE LANDRIEU PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE:

<><> Landrieu was bought off in what Forbes Mag dubbed "Obamacare's 'Louisiana Purchase'" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu.

<><> Where's the $4.3 billion, Mary?

<><> FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a green bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

<><> How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet annother indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.

<><> The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare.

<><> Where's the $4.3 billion, Mary?

<><> In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars.

<><> Obama complied--- Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare---and the $4.3 Landrieu giveaway was attached to the Obamacare bill.

[silverleaf]

when the going gets tough, the tough get going ... to the tropics

Sebelius or some liberal think tank will find her a new place to practice her liberal bureaucracy

[Bob]

One cannot become unreachable by phone, text, or email except by design.

[Cen-Tejas]

My IPhone worked as well or better on any beach in St Thomas, St. Croix, St. John’s, St. Martin or Anquilla where I recently lived for 18 months straight.

The only way then that I could be unreachable was to turn the thing off, which during certain hours of the day I did exactly that and my friends knew not to call during those hours.

She wasn’t “vacationing” she was “escaping”.............from the stress of being a fish outta water re the technical issues and having nothing to contribute.