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Waxman Claims Private Sector Responsible for Obamacare Glitches
Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 22, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 10/22/2013 5:16:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) blamed the private contractors retained by HHS to build and administer healthcare.gov for the website’s extensive glitches Tuesday on MSNBC.

Waxman said Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was not aware of all of the “technicalities” pertaining to the Obamacare website and thus should not be held responsible for its failure.

“She’s done a terrific job,” Waxman said, “I have a great deal of confidence in her.”

The private sector, according to Waxman, failed to live up to their contractual obligations “even with all of the money they got.”

The California congressman suggested that if “anyone’s head should roll, it should be the contractors who didn’t live up to their contractual responsibilities”:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; failure; healthcaredotgov; india; nostrils; obamacare; outsourcing; rinocare
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The private sector, according to Waxman, failed to live up to their contractual obligations “even with all of the money they got.”

....and who gave them that money, Henry? - and what, if any oversight was put into place to ensure that money was being well spent?

21 posted on 10/22/2013 5:36:26 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: righttackle44

I actually believe that Waxman is as stupid as he looks.


22 posted on 10/22/2013 5:40:56 PM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never mind that the requirements for the website were impossible to meet,


23 posted on 10/22/2013 5:42:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: headstamp 2

“Instead it was those damned campaign contributors er, contractors.”

The true meaning of the saying, “Close enough for government work.”


24 posted on 10/22/2013 5:44:00 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I love it when they occasionally speak the truth about what’s going on in their heads.


25 posted on 10/22/2013 5:44:55 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So here’s a user ion. In 2006, the hated Mitt Romney kicked offs similar system in Massachusetts with few or no glitches. The sign up works today. If Obama is so much smarter than Romney why is it Romney could oversee a system that works and Obama can’t even explain what went wrong? Why would he pay a half billion dollars to recreate a system Romney already paid for?


26 posted on 10/22/2013 5:45:26 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

-——The California congressman suggested that if “anyone’s head should roll, it should be the contractors who didn’t live up to their contractual responsibilities”:——

We can agree on that....but the she wolf nazi sebellius was the head of the train wreck....her head should roll first....


27 posted on 10/22/2013 5:46:11 PM PDT by Popman (Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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To: originalbuckeye

It’s suspicious that he hired a firm that failed at what he hired them to do.


28 posted on 10/22/2013 5:46:35 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Lazamataz
When it fails -- WORSE -- THEN what will you say?

Too easy. "The Health Care System in this country is shameful. It's time for a National Health Care System, most other countries have them. We should too."

29 posted on 10/22/2013 5:47:48 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: muir_redwoods

The answer is clear: The Foot Stompin’ Petulant Baby we have that passes for a president would never admit Romney did something that works...even after the election, but especially before when it was needed.


30 posted on 10/22/2013 5:50:44 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The party of ‘not my fault’ declares that the private sector cannot be trusted with the nation’s health care... they must install a single payer system to ... (wait for it) “compete” with the big bad greedy capitalists...


31 posted on 10/22/2013 5:52:38 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So why does any manager or CEO ever get paid then, if the product is solely a result of what the hired help does? What idiots and/or liars...

This whole “it’s the private sector’s fault” meme has been circulating liberal blogs and comments for a week or two now. Guess the crap clogging the pipes finally filtered up and out of the toilet bowl.


32 posted on 10/22/2013 5:52:55 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WOW!!!! Waxman comes out of the closet!!!! Seems he only spills his diatribe on debacles of this magnitude. Remember the 50 caliber (rifle) IN THE HANDS OF PRIVATE GUN NUTS,,,, OMG!!!! panic????

WHERE IS THE LIBERAL PANIC BUTTON???? !!!!

33 posted on 10/22/2013 5:53:49 PM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You own it, Wax Man. 0bamaCare is a Dems Only Production.


34 posted on 10/22/2013 6:06:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The private sector is as much to blame for the failures of obamacare as it is for Waxman being an ugly pig. He should be rolling around in excrement filled mud pits instead of sitting in congress. He should patent his face and sell it as birth control.
35 posted on 10/22/2013 6:10:01 PM PDT by peeps36 (I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags of All Colors)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; a fool in paradise

Who are you people arguing with? No one hears you! These basters know what they are doing - repeat a lie until it becomes the one and only truth in the minds of the sheeple!


36 posted on 10/22/2013 6:12:57 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

i guess the hhs buck doesn’t stop at cruella deville (sebelius).

she’s sacrificed too many kids to molech for the socialists to abandon her.


37 posted on 10/22/2013 6:21:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Henry Waxman - The Pride of Hollywood

38 posted on 10/22/2013 6:38:28 PM PDT by Baynative (Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept those that I can't.)
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To: Venturer

“I actually believe that Waxman is as stupid as he looks.”

I can’t believe he doesn’t have enough money to get a nose job. I guess like a typical dem he is loose with the public’s money and cheap with his own.


39 posted on 10/22/2013 7:00:30 PM PDT by willk
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To: Baynative

Nosferatu blames the private sector. Purple-lips and Kathy blame the Tea party govt. shutdown ...
Let’s blame it on the bossa nova and call the whole thing off.


40 posted on 10/22/2013 7:01:24 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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