Posted on 10/30/2013 6:48:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
US President Barack Obama has accepted "full responsibility" for ensuring the troubled healthcare website gets fixed.
Speaking in Boston, he said he was "not happy" about the glitch-laden project, but made a full-throated defence of the broader 2010 healthcare law.
Earlier, his embattled health secretary apologised to the American people over the botched website rollout.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the largest overhaul of the US healthcare system since the 1960s.
Commonly known as Obamacare, it aims to extend health insurance coverage to the estimated 15% of the American population who lack it.
But a key element of the law, the federal website where consumers can shop for health insurance plans, has been plagued by errors since its launch on 1 October.
'The model works'
Mr Obama said in Wednesday's speech: "There's no denying it - right now the website is too slow. Too many people have gotten stuck. And I'm not happy it about it. And neither are a lot of Americans who need healthcare."
He added: "So there's no excuse for it. And I take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP. We are working overtime to improve it every day."
He spoke in Boston, Massachusetts, a state that in 2006 introduced a groundbreaking healthcare law that inspired the Obama administration's own nationwide overhaul.
"Massachusetts has shown the model works," he said.
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“He takes responsibility for fixing it, not for the failure itself. More weasel words from the weasel in chief.”
Obama to the rescue, I guess. Ugh!
Another unfulfilled promise from the clueless Obama.
Steely: "It does this by destroying the health care of the 85% of the American population who have it."
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Sums things up pretty good...
BTTT.
Then B. Hussein Obama will pull a backdoor salvation by telling everybody that if we had single payer, this kind of failure would not be happening.
Single payer will become the new "law of the land".
Reminds me of Janet Reno/Bill Clinton - who really was responsible for Waco?
Neither of them and both of them in each instance.
Depends on the meaning of what "responsible" is.
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Good point...
Umm, wasn’t there the report recently that even WITH OCare, there will STILL be ~15M uninsured (the same amount they said the ACA was supposed to cover)?? IE: Bring down the system for NO drop in what is to ‘fix’
“... And I take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP...”
OK, but who is accountable?
Funny thing about leftists “taking full responsibility” - they still seem to avoid the consequences.
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