Onion version:
Posted on 11/04/2013 6:21:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Now you see her, now you don’t.
That smiling face on the homepage of the Healthcare.gov website was there over the weekend, but has now dissapeared — replaced by four colorful, circular icons.
So, where did she go?
Twitter’s got a few ideas. One user joked that she had become the first victim of the mythical Obamacare death panels.
While another thought she simply might have known too much.
In actuality though, it’s nothing quite that nefarious.
The picture of the smiling young brunette, which was reportedly picked from a stock photo library, was removed from the site after multiple media outlets started investigations into the woman’s identity.
That included Buzzfeed, who dubbed the woman “Adriana” after discovering the image’s file name in the website’s source code.
And CNN who calls the woman “the Enigmatic Mona Lisa of health care.” Which is slightly nicer than names others have called her — like “Glitch Girl.” That, thanks to the Affordable Care Act website’s consistent troubles since its rollout Oct. 1. (Via Politix) Despite the overwhelming interest, it seems the Obama administration will be keeping mum about her identity.
Quoted by New York Daily News, a rep for the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services said: "The woman featured on the website signed a release for us to use the photo, but to protect her privacy, we will not share her personal or contact info with anyone.”
Which, for her sake, is probably a good thing.
Onion version:
Who cares?
Someone has to take responsibility for this website’s failure.
Someone has to take responsibility for this website’s failure.
She was probably tired of be associated with a catastrophe..
“The woman featured on the website signed a release for us to use the photo, but to protect her privacy, we will not share her personal or contact info with anyone.”
Which is far better than what happens to the people who sign up on the website with it’s many security holes
Smell the irony.
I found her!
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/675/8469/original.jpg
**I’d post the jpg. itself but can’t figure out how :(
Thanks!
LOL!
De nada.
what ever happened to that dope called the bozo , sorry Obama girl?
with bozo’s infatuation of homosexuals and those cross dressers then that is how bozo probably looks like at night for Chewbacca.
My word... they "Fort Marcie'd her! I guess someone had to be held accountable...
I think they should put a decapitated old white guy on the home page. After all, it’s men who’ll be picking up the bulk of the 0bamacare tab. War on Women? It’s MEN who’re getting raped by 0bamacare.
She’s now in the witless protection program. LOL
ROFL ROFL OMG my ribs that is so funny but true.
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