Posted on 10/23/2013 7:25:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You might have thought that the ultimate culpability for the current problems plaguing ObamaCare belong to the administration that sloppily designed, forcefully passed, and hastily implemented the gigantic redistribution project — but you would have been wrong. Ranking Democrat of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the one holding the health care hearing this Thursday, is here to tell you why:
KIRSTEN WELKER: Based on what you know right now, was the president or Secretary Sebelius made aware of those problems before this system was launched?
WAXMAN: I don’t have any information about that, but no one could have possibly known how bad the system would work when it was implemented all across the country for the millions of people that want insurance and have tried to access the website. So if it worked well for a smaller group, turned out it didn’t work well enough for a larger group. That often happens. …
WELKER: Congressman, just very quickly, yes or no, should Secretary Sebelius keep her job?
HENRY WAXMAN: Absolutely. There’s no reason for her not to continue on as secretary. She’s done a terrific job. I have a great deal of confidence in her. She doesn’t know about all technicalities. That was contracted out to the private sector, and the private sector with all the money they got, couldn’t develop the website that we needed. It shouldn’t have been done by government, but we should have had more competent people in the private sector, and if anybody’s head should roll, it should be the contractors who didn’t live up to their contractual responsibility.
Firstly, “no one could have possibly known how bad the system would work,” really? The failures in the beta-testing phase — you know, the one they started in the week before the enrollment period — wasn’t a huge giveaway?
Secondly, if indeed the involved contractors “couldn’t develop the website that we needed” and “didn’t live up to their contractual responsibility,” then in turn, whose fault is that? It couldn’t be… the people who hired those contractors and/or assigned them an impossible task, could it?!
Truly, the gentleman is in dire need of better talking points. He’s likely to get them on the morrow:
Mike Hash, who directs the Office of Health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, will brief House Democrats Wednesday about implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
The closed-door session, which will start at 8:50 a.m., marks the first time the administration will have briefed members of Congress on the online enrollment system since its troubled rollout on Oct. 1.
The briefing comes as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius published a blog post detailing some of the efforts the administration is undertaking to fix HealthCare.gov, including bringing on former Office of Management and Budget acting director Jeffrey Zients.
“WE NEED SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”
We all KNEW this is where they wanted to go with this in the first place.
Hundreds of millions of dollars on a website that doesn’t work, 3 years in the making, and these bastards want to be in charge of life and death decisions involving vulernable patients!!!
NostilDumbAss has spoken, thus it is so.
“NostilDumbAss” = NostrilDumbAss
Honestly. Anyone that would even vote for this reject from the netherworld of SnorkPorkerShire has got to have a damned screw loose. In fact, Pelousy, BoxXer, Feenschtein and all the rest.....damn....just damn.
“WHAT WE NEED IS TOTAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF EVERYTHING”.
HENRY “BOOGER EATER” EARWAXMAN
Just like the problems that Amazon and Google and Yahoo had when they launched. NOT!
Waxman has a credibility gap wider than his nostrils!
We promise to get real Henry if you admit once and for all that you really are the bat boy.
Henry, you ASS, YOU are the one who wanted to hold hearings in June of 2010 to FIX THE BROKEN AND INCONSISTENT ELEMENTS OF THE ACA!!!
But Nancy wouldn’t let you, because she said, “That would be admitting there is something wrong with this bill, and “we” are very clearly telling the voters that it is perfect.”
Latent Communists in America getting all wee’ wee’d the sheeple arn’t buying into their agenda.
Life sucks to them.
Typical commie ‘RAT extremist excuse. Blame it on the private sector. LOL! Good idea, Hank!
Hmmm... It's almost as though the system was designed to fail, with the failure to be blamed on a class of predetermined villains, to be followed by orchestrated demands for a government takeover of health care.
Nah. That's crazy Tea Party talk.
Sebelius Admits She Needed Four Year Delay [5 year set-up, additional year testing]
Worlds ugliest man, inside and out, chimes in.
Have the DemocRATs blamed space aliens yet?
DELUSIONAL
Next they’ll be telling us the only way to fix it is more government control of the software industry.
I love you posting all these Dem excuses, each one gets better and funnier than the last one.
Dont be ‘rooting for failure’ now LOL
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