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.
just think how good he would look in stocks with his ears nailed to the board as in colonial Virginia
Pin the fail on the honky.
Waxman hasn’t been real since the day he was born.
We are seeing the face of Tyranny every day. It is the natural outcome of heavey handed, iron fisted, powerful and central governments to fail. It is impossible for it to work as they claim is their intention. Then when the natural failure occurs, fascists always shift blame to other parties.
After the public begins to accept that the blame resides where it is being assigned, then it is easy to demonize “those people standing in the way of utopia.” Once that demonization takes hold, you can easily try to remedy their obstruction with action....
..you know, like putting them on trains bound for concentration camps.
No. They want the IRS to make those decisions. You know? Those who would just allow conservatives to die because their conditions wouldn’t warrant any further care.
Just wait liberals. You’ll be there too.
Welcome to the Third World.
He better be careful blaming the contractors.
The reason they got the contract was because they’re Obama’s buds.
Really, Nostril - you must be retarded. With your intellect running things, there would be no computers today.
Why don’t you go put your gun up your nose?
5.56mm
What does bat head know?
How about gliches related to government low bid process or better yet, whose the “friend” of Obama that got the contract? Mybe thats the problem Sen Bat Head...
The dems are in a crisis they can’t put to use.
I'm not sure many people actually vote for him. He is fortunate to live in a district full of idiots who don't really bother with such things, and can therefore have ballots cast in their name for the candidate people of their ethnic heritage "ought" to vote for...all processing handled as a courtesy by the local Democrat-labor machine.
Questioning the mechanics of this is, of course, "racist", let alone carrying out an actual investigation into it. Republicans who try are quickly equated to Bull Connor, and hounded out of public life. California Democrats have honed the process to an art form, and appear to have successfully exported it to several battleground states during the 2012 election.
This Waxman?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002L5AU6Q/ref=atv_feed_catalog?tag=imdb-amazonvideo-20
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.