Posted on 10/30/2013 9:05:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top health official apologized on Wednesday for the botched rollout of the government's healthcare website, acknowledging it was a "debacle", while also blaming insurers for cancelling coverage for hundreds of thousands of people.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, .. vowed to win back the confidence of millions of disappointed Americans.
"Hold me accountable for the debacle. I'm responsible," Sebelius said in response to questions from Marsha Blackburn, the Republican U.S. Representative of Tennessee, ..
Technical glitches have dogged the Healthcare.gov since its launch on Oct. 1, .. . But critics of Obamacare have seized on the hundreds of thousands of Americans due to lose their current plans because they fail to include essential benefits required by the law and are asking whether Obama misrepresented the law.
Sebelius, the cabinet official spearheading the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, .. drew intense criticism from Republicans including Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton accused Obama of breaking a 2009 promise that people with insurance could keep their current plans.
"They are now receiving termination notices, and for those who lose the coverage they like, they may also be losing faith in their government," the Michigan Republican said.
Sebelius defended the administration by describing hundreds of thousands who have received cancellation notices as the victims of a market long known for discriminating against the sick, cancelling policies and selling inadequate insurance.
"The individual market ... anywhere in the country has never had consumer protections. People are on their own. They can be locked out, priced out, dumped out," by insurers, Sebelius said.
Sebelius said Obama had not broken his promise because plans that have existed since the law was signed have had the option of remaining unchanged.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
mama used to always say..
Stupid is as stupid does.
She should apologize in the way that disgraced Japanese officials or businessmen do it: harakiri.
Secretary Sebelius: Americans ‘Deserve Better’
HHS secretary says launch of Healtcare.gov has been a “miserably frustrating experience.”
ABC News Videos
http://news.yahoo.com/video/secretary-sebelius-americans-deserve-better-134753315.html
Problem solved, time to move to ‘immigration reform’
Kinda’ like apologizing for a rough beheading.
It’s easy to take responsibility for an f-up when you know you’re not going to lose your job. If she really felt any sense of responsibility or shame at all over this, she would resign.
This is one, evil whore.
WaPo - 10/30/13
Juliet Eilperin
CGI warned of HealthCare.gov problems a month before launch, documents show
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released documents Tuesday night showing one of the primary contractors for HealthCare.gov, CGI Federal, warned administration officials the Web site faced problems just weeks before its Oct. 1 launch.
WEBSITE CRASHES AS SEBELIUS SPEAKS...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/30/Minutes-Before-Sebelius-Testimony-ObamaCare-Site-Crashes
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‘Website has never crashed’...
http://www.speaker.gov/general/system-down-sebelius-claims-obamacare-website-has-never-crashed
H/T Drudge
Only if the American people want government to decide if they live or die. Sound like Germany in the 1930’s yet?
Sebelius: cannot talk without throwing her hands all over, no wonder she does not have any one sitting close to her...
Top Dem: Those aren’t ‘cancellation notices,’ they’re ‘transitions’...
http://washingtonexaminer.com/top-democrat-says-those-arent-cancellation-notices-theyre-transitions-into-obamacare/article/2538122
Senator Sander Levin
Democrats concede that Obama oversold promise for health care law
By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 10/30/13 09:20 AM
Congressional Democrats conceded Tuesday that President Obama’s “guarantee” that Americans could keep their existing health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act was oversold.
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Schakowsky blasts Republicans at anti-Obamacare hearing: ‘Get over it!’
By David Edwards
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:51 EDT
Is your husband off parole yet?
Jan’s husband, that IS. :-}
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