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Waxman Claims Private Sector Responsible for Obamacare Glitches
Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 22, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 10/22/2013 5:16:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) blamed the private contractors retained by HHS to build and administer healthcare.gov for the website’s extensive glitches Tuesday on MSNBC.

Waxman said Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was not aware of all of the “technicalities” pertaining to the Obamacare website and thus should not be held responsible for its failure.

“She’s done a terrific job,” Waxman said, “I have a great deal of confidence in her.”

The private sector, according to Waxman, failed to live up to their contractual obligations “even with all of the money they got.”

The California congressman suggested that if “anyone’s head should roll, it should be the contractors who didn’t live up to their contractual responsibilities”:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; failure; healthcaredotgov; india; nostrils; obamacare; outsourcing; rinocare
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Delusional Marxist.
1 posted on 10/22/2013 5:16:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Buck stops up his nose, way up his nose.

what can you say?


2 posted on 10/22/2013 5:19:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perhaps we should expunge them? Would not our society benefit and be more pure if it were free of the influence and taint of these capitalist swine? Can we move the private sector into camps?


3 posted on 10/22/2013 5:19:08 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sure he meant to say...’it’s Bush’s fault’.


4 posted on 10/22/2013 5:19:51 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

for all the businesses dealing with the government... the guillotine has arrived.


5 posted on 10/22/2013 5:19:56 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's not Sebelius' fault that she couldn't articulate the requirements, and was secretive about it out of fear of Republicans finding out too soon.

It's the private sector's fault for not trying hard enough to get her to explain what she needed.

-PJ

6 posted on 10/22/2013 5:20:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I believe that every ‘private contractor’ involved in every aspect of Obamacare are FOBs, Friends of Barack. He is such a micromanager, I simply don’t believe there was any ‘casting a wide net’ to choose the best suited to do the jobs.The Dems who have the bully pulpit via the Obama/Pravda Media are wearing out their welcome. I believe more and more people are seeing through all the BS. Hope it is not toooooo late.


7 posted on 10/22/2013 5:20:31 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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To: originalbuckeye

Carter was a control freak. Obama is a lazy freak.


8 posted on 10/22/2013 5:21:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, if only the FedGov did this totally in-house, the website would be spectacular.

Instead it was those damned campaign contributors er, contractors.


9 posted on 10/22/2013 5:22:46 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tell ya what, ya f***in Marxist....

....we'll give you and ONLY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES *TWO* *MORE* *YEARS* to fix this monstrosity.

When it fails -- WORSE -- THEN what will you say?

Oh, I know. Rush Limbaugh did it. Republicans hacked it. It's all Bush's fault.

10 posted on 10/22/2013 5:26:26 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Maye one or two were FOBs (Friends of Bill) sent to “repay” something the obozothugs did to hillary during the campaign.


11 posted on 10/22/2013 5:27:04 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The job was outsourced to a substandard obama supporter with a o bid contract....that’s who is to blame.
Waxman is trying to make it look like US private sector is to blame.


12 posted on 10/22/2013 5:27:44 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nostrilitis Marxist.


13 posted on 10/22/2013 5:27:51 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Waxman is also a wreck, so he can’t tell the difference.


14 posted on 10/22/2013 5:29:58 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sebelius should have googled “internet” and had lunch with Al Gore


15 posted on 10/22/2013 5:32:07 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Heart of Georgia

I heard that Canadian contractor, CGI, had failed at designing a web based gun registry in Canada. I suspect that Obama got wind of this and wanted to give them a contract to do that here after the Obamacare website was a success.


16 posted on 10/22/2013 5:32:48 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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To: Wiggins

Too much oxygen getting to his brain


17 posted on 10/22/2013 5:33:13 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat.

FUWaxhead


18 posted on 10/22/2013 5:33:27 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey rat-faced dude, the buck stops with the idiot who hires the contractors. At least that’s the way it works in the dreaded private sector.


19 posted on 10/22/2013 5:35:14 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The people in charge are the ones who should be held responsible. Let’s see, who might that be?

Even a leftist rag like the Washington Post is reporting that a load test was held on the system with a paltry few hundred users simulated...said test failed miserably and the Feds said go ahead anyway. Whose fault is that?


20 posted on 10/22/2013 5:36:04 PM PDT by hitkicker (The only thing worse than a politician is a child molester)
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