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How the HealthCare.gov Failure Will Morph into Obamacaregate
Slate ^ | October 22, 2013 | David Weigel

Posted on 10/22/2013 11:35:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

".................The Canadian-owned company built the website, and in testimony from September 10, it told the skeptical House Energy and Commerce committee that things were going just great.

To date, the FFM implementation has achieved all of its key milestones from the initial Architecture Review in October 2011 to Project Baseline Review in March 2012 and, most recently, the Operational Readiness Review in September 2013. Additionally, in April 2013, health insurers began submitting their plans to the system for review by CMS. Starting in August 2013, consumers were able to go into the system and register their accounts. At this time, CGI Federal is confident that it will deliver the functionality that CMS has directed to enable qualified individuals to begin enrolling in coverage when the initial enrollment period begins.

Well. In announcing this new hearing, Republicans complained that "for months, administration officials and contractors alike assured committee members that implementation was 'on track' for the October 1 rollout, but the first three weeks of open enrollment have been defined by significant systems failures." There's a contradiction here, and there's a party remaining silent. What do HHS staffers think of the mess? How much did they know before October 1?

If the investigations into Fast and Furious and the IRS scandal tell us anything, the next phase of GOP sleuthing into Obamacare will probably be subpoenas and other requests that produce awkward communication (emails, mostly) from HHS and contractors. There will be lower-level bureaucrats who get caught out for saying the wrong thing, or encouraging others not to say the wrong thing. It's incredible that HHS et al built this system for years with nary a leak about possible glitches in the system.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: cgifederal; obamacare; obamacarefraud; obamacaregate; obamacarerollout; obamacaresoftware; obamacarewebsite; obamafail; obamafraud; rolloutflop; sebeliuslies
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1 posted on 10/22/2013 11:35:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You can’t blame the company that built the website for the mess ,just like you can’t blame GM for the Chevy Vote ,it was the Obama Admin giving the ORDERS


2 posted on 10/22/2013 11:39:41 AM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
the great leader is as we "speak" searching for plausible excuses for this monumental failure...to deliver as promise

as you can plainly see...hes got NUTTIN!!



OH JAY....JAY? help me out here Jay!!
3 posted on 10/22/2013 11:41:17 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It will become Obamacare-gate only when the MSM and Soros are convinced that the failures of ObamaCare will take down the Democrats/Progressives and threaten their grip on power in Washington.


4 posted on 10/22/2013 11:42:39 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And then Boner will do nothing.


5 posted on 10/22/2013 11:43:50 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: Uncle Miltie
And then Boner will do nothing.

And then STILL Boner will do nothing.

6 posted on 10/22/2013 11:45:56 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They will try to morph this failure into a system where the govt. provides all of the healthcare. Single-payer, anyone?


7 posted on 10/22/2013 11:46:02 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I'm in Kalifornia and AT&T is the provider for my work cell phone. Not verbatim: I just received a recorded message encouraging me to sign up for obozocare to make sure my children have health care insurance. Thanks AT&T, you suck!
8 posted on 10/22/2013 11:50:42 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: MeshugeMikey

What they’re frantically busy searching for is a conservative IT fall guy to blame the obamaFAIL on.


9 posted on 10/22/2013 12:06:52 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It will never happen.

“O” has the golden, skeleton key.

No matter what he does or how badly he fails... the MSM will spin it his way!


10 posted on 10/22/2013 12:18:28 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Dear God I hope so

I hope Obamacare is like that burning mountain of tires in England that went on for 15 years. Even after it is dead, let’s hope it still spews toxic waste out as an eternal memorial to the stupidity and arrogance of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.


11 posted on 10/22/2013 12:18:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Heart of Georgia

“...searching for conservative IT fall guy...”

That would be Senator Ted Cruz, born in Canada where the company that programmed AHA web site is from. Get IT?


12 posted on 10/22/2013 12:18:51 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

Obamas Cruzin for a Bruisin!!


13 posted on 10/22/2013 12:20:04 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Heart of Georgia

if they cant find one....they will simply invent one

perhaps one of obama’s non existent twitter followers??


14 posted on 10/22/2013 12:21:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
How the HealthCare.gov Failure Will Morph into Obamacaregate

Won't happen. He's black and that would be racist.

15 posted on 10/22/2013 12:23:15 PM PDT by CodeJockey (Christian, Freeper, Tea Party Member, Bitter Clinger, Creepy White Cracker)
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To: Parmy

That’s the plan—but the roll out may be so bad it threatens the whole thing.


16 posted on 10/22/2013 12:23:57 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Great Leader should look to the IT experts working at the NSA to fix his website. They tackle matters much more technically challenging that taking data from a web-source and moving it to a database. Have been for years.


17 posted on 10/22/2013 12:31:11 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh yeah, nothing like attaching yet another tired and cliched “-gate” on to the end of a legitimate disaster and thereby diminishing it. Sigh.


18 posted on 10/22/2013 12:39:13 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

The NASA of old is gone. Obama turned it into a Muslim outreach agency. Remember we have to use the Russians to get our people to the International Space Station.


19 posted on 10/22/2013 2:07:49 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Oh Sorry I read NASA not NSA. My Bad!


20 posted on 10/22/2013 2:09:02 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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