The ‘No Excuse’ Administration Has a Whopper of an Excuse for Obamacare

National Review ^ | October 23, 2013 | by John Fund

[Oldeconomybuyer]

President Obama told the nation there is “no excuse” for the disastrous rollout of the health-care exchanges that are central to Obamacare.

But that didn’t stop Kathleen Sebelius, his secretary of Health and Human Services in overall charge of the project, from making excuses in a CNN interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta yesterday. She claimed to Gupta that President Obama hadn’t been told of any potential problems prior to the launch of the exchanges on October 1 — a dereliction of duty anyway one defines it.

But there was also this startling explanation of what went wrong at HHS:

“We talked about having testing going forward, and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product and, you know, a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years but we didn’t have five years. And certainly, Americans who rely on health coverage didn’t have five years for us to wait. We wanted to make sure we made good on this final implementation of the law.”

[PilotDave]

5 years to build a website.? um, we won ww2 in less time. This country is over.

[brityank]

Thank you, Pres--ent Soetoro/Obama.
I am soooooooo grateful.

You have proven to me that indeed anyone can serve America.
You have proven anyone can mentor others.

Thankfully, we have you as a model ...

... of PURE INCOMPETENCE !

Praise be to God.

[jpsb]

"I could start now and have a system in place for $30,000,000 in 9 months."

Doable, but that would be a tight schedule. I'd want 50 mil and 2 years.

[ArcadeQuarters]

There have been reports that the project was in trouble at least as far back as March. Must be a pretty thick bubble he lives in.

[lavaroise]

Indeed, it is all part of the serious professional communist looks just for cutes. These potemkin people with their cute do nothing government factories in ssearch of easy missions on the weak are unfathomably stupid.

And let us not be fooled by the media criticizing them because IT IS THE MEDIA WHICH EDUCATED THESE FOOLS AND CLAMORED FOR THEM AND THAT STUPID SOCIALIST LANGUAGE.

[expat2]

They didn't want the one year, because Nov 2014 could be a bloodbath for Dems and the GOP could take the Senate and Obamacare may never make it into the future. Too big a risk.
Without it, the bloodbath may be bigger and Dems in purple states may be joining a move to kill this ugly thing.

[I want the USA back]

It doesn’t take 5 years to develop a website with this complexity. They’re saying they want to transform this country into a 100% marxist state in 5 years.

[pluvmantelo]

Agreed. He’s a stooge.

[Hessian]

I think 5 to 10 is just about the right amount of time....

[Hessian]

Five years? You could launch, and do four redesigns and re-launches in that amount of time...

[HiTech RedNeck]

That dog won’t hunt!

Or in Obamese, that unicorn won’t fly.

[Eagle of Liberty]

at minimum....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Remember that back of the website will be bureaucrats crafting an ever changing set of requirements. Obama wanted socialism, he got it. Now he’s watching it become as wildly uncontrollable as the situation of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

[Young Werther]

Give the guy a break. After all he leads the Country in vacations and golf.

sarc off Sheldor~

[Grampa Dave]

“Great pics and I am stealing the first one!!”

I stole er borrowed every picture.

Pass them around.

[Grampa Dave]

[VRW Conspirator]

If my employee didn’t tell me about a looming disaster as big as this, and it blew up in my face, I’d fire them. Immediately.

The reasonable conclusion is that Obama knew and did not care.

[bert]

He ordered a you tube search for a video but none was found

[VRW Conspirator]

I have held "Executive" management positions...

I take the position that I bring solutions to the bossman not problems. Problems that I bring to the bossman are ones that require solutions beyond my reach. At the level of Secretary of HHS with such a monumental roll out, jail is hardly good enough for her. 3 years and hundreds of millions of dollars? This is the apex of the socialists' achievement and she bungles it like an amateur. This is a boon for the republicans and a woeful demonstration of things to come.

[Gritty]

...if we had an ideal situation ... a five-year period of time

Communists always loved Five Year Plans in the past. There is no reason they still don't.