Posted on 10/23/2013 10:33:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sebelius: Obama didn't know about tech issues
Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News 1 hour ago
The woman at the center of the firestorm surrounding the tech-plagued launch of the Obamacare website says President Barack Obama was not informed of potential red flags until it went live.
In an interview with CNN's Sanjay Gupta on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the president was told of problems with the site in the "first couple of days" after the Oct. 1 launch of HealthCare.gov, but not before.
"Nobody says the site is working the way we want it to," Sebelius said. "No one could be more frustrated than I am, and the president, that this isn't smooth."
Sebelius, though, defended going ahead with the launch of the Affordable Care Act portal despite concerns from health insurance companies that it wouldn't work and a failed test run in late September involving just a few hundred users.
"There are people in this country who have waited decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families," she said. "What's clear is we have a product. The product really works. We have created a market where there wasn't a market."
She added, "I was optimistic that things would go smoothly. I felt that the day had finally come I've done this work now for three and a half years, implementing this historic law."
The secretary blamed some on the site's problems on "extremely high" volume.
"We've had nearly 20 million people visit the website in the first three weeks," Sebelius said. "And that shows, I think, the pent-up interest that people have in affordable, available health coverage."
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A CEO of a company that did not know of such a major catastrophe in the making would be fired on the spot
“The media must not have told him what was going on, therefore, he did not know.”
Meet the Low Information President.
Why wasn't Obama made aware?
I believe it would have been Sebellius' job to tell him.
She's admitting her 100% ineptitude.
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