Posted on 11/19/2014 1:53:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A key ObamaCare official engaged in a cruel and uncaring march to launch the federal health care website last year and wasnt open to seeking a delay despite concerns, according to a newly revealed email from her former second-in-command.
The damning email from Michelle Snyder, formerly the No. 2 official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was released to FoxNews.com ahead of a Wednesday House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee hearing on the security and botched rollout of Healthcare.gov.
In the September 2013 email to Todd Park, the former Chief Technology Officer of the U.S., Snyder characterized her then-boss, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, as a temper tantrum-throwing, demanding official who vowed the website would launch on time "no matter what."
Snyder implied that Tavenner had threatened her job if Snyder was unable to deliver.
Just so you know (Tavenner) decided in January we were going no matter what, Snyder wrote. Hence the really cruel and uncaring march that has occurred since January when she threatened me with a demotion or forced retirement if I didnt take this on.
Snyders words may have been prophetic---she announced her retirement just a few months later. She told Park that Tavenner did not have a good enough understanding of the risks of launching before the website was ready to fight for a delay.
Do you really think (Tavenner) has enough understanding of the risks to fight for a delay---no and hell no, she wrote.
She later added:I appreciate you (sic) belief in the goodness of others but at this point I am too tired to pretend that there is a decision to be made - it is just how much crap my team will have to take if it isnt sufficiently successful you havent lived through the temper tantrums and threats of the last 9 months.
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that a plurality (47%) of Likely U.S. Voters thinks implementation of Obamacare should be put on hold until all legal challenges are exhausted. Forty percent (40%) disagree, but 13% are not sure...."
Nov. 19, 2014: The Vindication of John Roberts "....In NFIB v. Sebelius, that meant that if it walks like a tax and quacks like a tax, its a tax. And for the upcoming arguing of King v. Burwell, it means that an exchange established under Section 1321 of the Affordable Care Act is not an exchange established under Section 1311. It means that a Gruberesque writing of legislation in a tortured way to make a tax or any other legislative element appear to be, and to be scored by the CBO as, something different from what it actually is will not get far in the Supreme Court, or at least not with John Roberts.
Presumably, then, the odds are good that the chief justice will not be amused when the government argues, in King v. Burwell, that an exchange created under Section 1321 of the ACA Care Act is an exchange created under Section 1311.
On the other hand, this writer will be greatly amused as he savors the delicious irony (and watches liberal heads explode in the White House and on MSNBC) as the very logic that was instrumental in saving the individual mandate in NFIB v. Sebelius leads, ultimately, in King v. Burwell, to the collapse of the entire ACA.
In the meantime, those who castigated John Roberts for his opinion calling the individual mandate a tax, an opinion that the architect of the ACA has now confirmed, might want to consider an apology, along with a heaping helping of crow."
“Make it so.” It’s the Obama Way!
That’s what kids do.. tantrums etc and liberals are folks that never learn, never understand, don’t get logic or common sense or grow up hence their incompetent mindset.
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This was a line of questioning in the hearing today.
Subcommittee on Oversight Hearing - The Role of the White House Chief Technology Officer in the HealthCare.gov Website Debacle
Thank you for the link!
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