Posted on 12/12/2013 11:44:42 AM PST by bkopto
The botched rollout of Obamacare has claimed another bureaucrat. Maryland's state Obamacare exchange director resigned after it was discovered that she was on a vacation in the Cayman Islands when the website imploded.
This makes the third blue state exchange director forced out because of problems with the websites. Previously, the directors for the troubled Hawaii and Oregon exchanges had been run out of town.
The director of Maryland's troubled health insurance exchange resigned Friday amid ongoing technical problems and questions about a Caribbean vacation she took while the online marketplace faltered.
Rebecca Pearce, hired two years ago to build a $107 million exchange, leaves her post as officials struggle to repair the system that launched Oct. 1.
The exchange's rocky start and low enrollment have become ammunition for political attacks on Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who was tasked by the governor with overseeing the state's implementation of the federal health care reform law.
The board of the Maryland Heath Benefit Exchange accepted Pearce's resignation during an emergency session Friday night. In a statement, Joshua Sharfstein, the state health secretary and board chairman, said Pearce "worked tirelessly and with tremendous dedication."
Pearce, whose starting salary in 2011 was $175,000, will be replaced on an interim basis by Carolyn Quattrocki, a top adviser to Gov. Martin O'Malley.
As state lawmakers grilled Sharfstein on Nov. 26 on why the health exchange was still broken, Pearce was on a week's vacation in the Cayman Islands.
During the trip, she could not be reached by phone, email or text, the health department said Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
From the Baltimore Sun on June 28, 2013:
For Rebecca Pearce, leading the state's health insurance exchange has significance. "It's not very often you get a chance to change history," she says. "We're going to fundamentally change the way health care is delivered in the state."
That is, as it sounds, not a simple process. Pearce has executed decisions shaping the insurance marketplace, a key piece of federal reforms dubbed Obamacare. But her true test awaits: The exchange opens for business Oct. 1, enrolling thousands of the state's 800,000 uninsured residents for coverage starting in 2014. As Pearce puts it: "We've built the present, wrapped it, and now we're trying to put the bow on it."
Let us hope it goes viral...................
The Chief Liar and his evil mouthpiece, Carney, continue to spout the fairy tale that the Blue state exchanges are humming along at top speed and will somehow save this colossal failure.
Three abysmal failures pointed out to us, but in reality, it’s all one and the same Big Failure. Just blame seems to be contagious for those below the Federal level, and immune to the equal to and above.
So typical of liberals, who end up ruining any project or company, they are in charge of:
“The botched rollout of Obamacare has claimed another bureaucrat. Maryland’s state Obamacare exchange director resigned after it was discovered that she was on a vacation in the Cayman Islands when the website imploded.”
Name one of these idiots (surely, they are because they are working for the gubmit) that will not have a better job following their resignation.
Until we see this, all news of resignations is a big smelly pile of bull Obamastuff.
Male or female, anyone running a botched Obamacare exchange should be publicly caned then locked into stocks.
She resigned Friday. You’d think they would update their website but she is still on there: http://marylandhbe.com/staff/rebecca-pearce/
In the Cayman Islands? Do any of these govt employees actually work?????
The Minnesota exchange (MNSure) is under scrutiny here for failing a recent security test. The state information tech. section (MNIT) was questioned about the security test failure, they then lied to the media (KSTP Channel 5 news) about the fact that the flaws existed, then proceeded to “fix” the denied flaws after the fact.
MNSure seems to have some of the same problems as the federal exchange in that, when people feel like they have completed the enrollment process, they may not be fully enrolled to the point that they will be covered under the new plan starting January 1.
What on earth is going to happen when some of these people have large claims during the beginning of January and they assume they have medical insurance, when in reality they do not???
Oh! You mean to tell me these high paid executive positions have supervisory responsibilities? Would would have thunk such a thing. That is low level stuff.
Maybe she took the Sys Admin passwords with her when she left (snicker) ...
Nobody goes to the Cayman Islands on holiday. She probably went to make a deposit/withdrawal at her bank.
She was checking on the balances of her offshore accounts and discovered she didn't need a job.
And forced to repay all money wasted. Yes, I truly believe all these people need to be financially ruined for the rest of their lives.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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