HealthCare.Gov Official: Part Of Site “Failed So Miserably” We Couldn’t Let People Use It

BuzzFeed ^ | November 13, 2013 | Andrew Kaczynski

[lbryce]

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, held a hearing Wednesday on the rollout of HealthCare.gov.

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One aspect of the hearing focused on the so-called "anonymous shopper" feature of the ObamaCare website, which House Republicans contended wasn't launched because the White House feared higher premiums might drive people away.

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The “anonymous shopper” feature would have allowed people to browse for health insurance without signing into the website.

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Henry Chao, the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the feature was not launched because “it failed so miserably we could not consciously let people use it.”

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At CMS, Chao is the Obamacare website’s chief project manager.

“I look at the facts of whether a system is going to be ready. And, of course, everything is not 100% perfect,” Chao said. “In this case, it failed so miserably that we could not conscionably let people use it.”

[lbryce]

Most truthful thing said by a government official in memory.

[steerpike100]

Except that it’s a lie. They didn’t want people driven into sticker price shock, so they removed it. This lie sounds plausible enough, and is less damning.

[gemoftheocean]

exactly right. The greenest programmer can tell you simple lookups would be the easiest thing to program.

[kcvl]

Chao said he was unaware of a Sept. 3 government memo written by another senior official at CMS. It found two high-risk issues, which are redacted for security reasons. The memo said "the threat and risk potential (to the system) is limitless." The memo shows CMS gave deadlines of mid-2014 and early 2015 to address them.

But Chao testified he'd been told the opposite.

According to federal guidelines, high risk means "the vulnerability could be expected to have a severe or catastrophic adverse affect on organizational operations ... assets or individuals."

It was Chao who recommended it was safe to launch the website Oct. 1. When shown the security risk memo, Chao said, "I just want to say that I haven't seen this before."

A Republican staff lawyer asked, "Do you find it surprising that you haven't seen this before?"

Chao replied, "Yeah ... I mean, wouldn't you be surprised if you were me?" He later added: "It is disturbing. I mean, I don't deny that this is ... a fairly nonstandard way" to proceed.

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[ExTxMarine]

Chao is the living proof of the spoof picture showing the Obama Talking Doofus 2.0 saying, “At no time did the Obama Administration know, exactly what the Obama Administration was doing!”

This is getting BEYOND ridiculous!

[ArmstedFragg]

Exactly. When “we failed miserably” is the BEST possible excuse you know you’re in trouble.

[varyouga]

““it failed so miserably we could not consciously let people use it.”’

Just like Obama’s “apology”, this is a statement that people will interpret the way they want.

The Obots will think it's just a technical glitch by some white geeks. Their free stuff is still on the way. After all, the King doesn't “write code”.

The opponents will think they are finally admitting the truth and the system might come down.

Obamacare is crippled to stop people from seeing the inconvenient truth: We are getting f’n robbed!

[VRWC For Truth]

FUBAR

[lepton]

“it failed so miserably we could not consciously let people use it.”

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There are lots of things people involved in this have not done consciously.

[lepton]

Don’t be so harsh. Can’t you see he’s not conscious? How can you expect him to make sense in his sleep?

[publius911]

“I look at the facts of whether a system is going to be ready. And, of course, everything is not 100% perfect,” Chao said. “In this case, it failed so miserably that we could not conscionably let people use it.”

One of three possible explanations for the utter failure, and not the one I buy into.

Based on the Obama regime's official record, the offered explanation is Bullshit!*

* Princeton Press

"Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."

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