Posted on 10/22/2013 11:35:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".................The Canadian-owned company built the website, and in testimony from September 10, it told the skeptical House Energy and Commerce committee that things were going just great.
To date, the FFM implementation has achieved all of its key milestones from the initial Architecture Review in October 2011 to Project Baseline Review in March 2012 and, most recently, the Operational Readiness Review in September 2013. Additionally, in April 2013, health insurers began submitting their plans to the system for review by CMS. Starting in August 2013, consumers were able to go into the system and register their accounts. At this time, CGI Federal is confident that it will deliver the functionality that CMS has directed to enable qualified individuals to begin enrolling in coverage when the initial enrollment period begins.
Well. In announcing this new hearing, Republicans complained that "for months, administration officials and contractors alike assured committee members that implementation was 'on track' for the October 1 rollout, but the first three weeks of open enrollment have been defined by significant systems failures." There's a contradiction here, and there's a party remaining silent. What do HHS staffers think of the mess? How much did they know before October 1?
If the investigations into Fast and Furious and the IRS scandal tell us anything, the next phase of GOP sleuthing into Obamacare will probably be subpoenas and other requests that produce awkward communication (emails, mostly) from HHS and contractors. There will be lower-level bureaucrats who get caught out for saying the wrong thing, or encouraging others not to say the wrong thing. It's incredible that HHS et al built this system for years with nary a leak about possible glitches in the system.
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You can’t blame the company that built the website for the mess ,just like you can’t blame GM for the Chevy Vote ,it was the Obama Admin giving the ORDERS
It will become Obamacare-gate only when the MSM and Soros are convinced that the failures of ObamaCare will take down the Democrats/Progressives and threaten their grip on power in Washington.
And then Boner will do nothing.
And then STILL Boner will do nothing.
They will try to morph this failure into a system where the govt. provides all of the healthcare. Single-payer, anyone?
What they’re frantically busy searching for is a conservative IT fall guy to blame the obamaFAIL on.
It will never happen.
“O” has the golden, skeleton key.
No matter what he does or how badly he fails... the MSM will spin it his way!
Dear God I hope so
I hope Obamacare is like that burning mountain of tires in England that went on for 15 years. Even after it is dead, let’s hope it still spews toxic waste out as an eternal memorial to the stupidity and arrogance of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
“...searching for conservative IT fall guy...”
That would be Senator Ted Cruz, born in Canada where the company that programmed AHA web site is from. Get IT?
Obamas Cruzin for a Bruisin!!
if they cant find one....they will simply invent one
perhaps one of obama’s non existent twitter followers??
Won't happen. He's black and that would be racist.
That’s the plan—but the roll out may be so bad it threatens the whole thing.
Great Leader should look to the IT experts working at the NSA to fix his website. They tackle matters much more technically challenging that taking data from a web-source and moving it to a database. Have been for years.
Oh yeah, nothing like attaching yet another tired and cliched “-gate” on to the end of a legitimate disaster and thereby diminishing it. Sigh.
The NASA of old is gone. Obama turned it into a Muslim outreach agency. Remember we have to use the Russians to get our people to the International Space Station.
Oh Sorry I read NASA not NSA. My Bad!
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