Posted on 10/30/2013 6:17:22 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on the hill, Wednesday, concerning healthcare.gov’s problems since its October 1 rollout. She’ll answer questions before the House Energy & Commerce Committee.
This is the committee’s second hearing related to the website problems. Last week, four government contractors hired to help build the site testified. Tuesday, Marilyn Tavener, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, appeared before the Ways & Means Committee.
CMS is responsible for setting up the federal marketplace for insurance exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. Rep. Fred Upton chairs the committee and Rep. Henry Waxman serves as Ranking Member.
Obama decided he would not attend the World Series game in Boston for the simple reason he would be loudly booed off the field!!! Oh.....he will have his usual handful of “Low Information” Obamabots surrounding him and weakly applauding his remarks. Obama can no longer gather a large crowd!!! The large majority of the American people....and in fact the entire world has his number as a total incompetent. He should be impeached!!!
heh-—good one.
High cotton....
ALL NEED TO KNOW that John McAfee was contacted by republicans and ax’d his opinion of the web site and recommended fixes
McAfee said the site was crap, a 3td grader could hack it and there is a virus in the site and then said
this POS will NEVER be fixed as it is UNFIXABLE
Well, she just had her ‘what difference does it make now?’ moment.
November 30
Admin - would you please add this to Breaking News and add (Live Thread) after the title. You can also delete mine - I didn’t see this one when I started mine:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3085440/posts
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Diana DeGette (CO)
asks about privacy guarantee and whether CGI can be trusted
IMO Republicans can never be taken seriously until they taken off the gloves and play to win. Stop playing defense all the time; go on the attack for once! I can’t understand why they refuse to do that. They are hopeless.
no no no the 31st....please do try to keep up /s
Lol.....funny as usual AG
I do the best I can w/o proper trainin or pay
Earlier she said the system was functioning, just poorly.
Now she can’t provide enrollment numbers because the system isn’t functioning.
Which is it Kathleen?
Sebelius says THE SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING AND WE DO NOT HAVE RELIABLE DATA.
Why doesn’t she issue STOP WORK?
Why doesn’t the committee pull the plug
Except for Blackburn, this committee is filled with Republican eunuchs. This entire hearing is useless and Sebelius knows she’s got the upper hand.
Good one, she said 17,000 per hour can sign up. Lol. Anyone going to ask her how they know that?
You could have taken any SV engineer and asked them, 'I have a friend — don't mention the government — who's thinking about a five-year, $100 million Oracle installation, and they've hired an outsourced contractor (crony-ridden CGI-Canada)to build it for them. It's going to be proprietary, hosted in their own data center, Oracle-based, with waterfall management."
"What are the odds that it's working on Day One of the rollout?" And everyone in SV will tell you: zero percent.
Silicon Valley's emerging suspicion of government, see the botched rollout as symptomatic of the government's ham-fisted approach to technology.
The healthcare.gov site is "only the latest episode in a string of information technology debacles by the federal government," wrote Clay Johnson and Harper Reed, two programmers with political pasts (Johnson was Howard Dean's lead programmer in 2004; Reed was the brain behind Obama's 2012 digital campaign) in a Times op-ed.
The pair went on: This latest failure is frustrating for us to watch ... We must find a fix to the federal procurement process that spares the government’s technology projects from the self-inflicted wounds of signing big contracts whose terms repeatedly and spectacularly go unmet.
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