This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.

Obamacare Overseer Sebelius Faces The Music - Live Webcast

Tyler Durden's picture




 

In yesterday's stage-setting drama, "coming in mid-November" replaced of the often heard "plead the fifth" as response of choice for Marilyn Tavenner (CMS Administrator). Today brings the main event, amid another server crash, as Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary) takes the stand to explain healthcare.gov's shortcomings and how great it will all be at some point in the future if we just have some patience, spend a few more billions of taxpayer money on lines of code, and ignore the fact that the website is just the start of the problems with Obamacare... Her initial remarks (released early - below) are almost exactly the same as her testimony to Congress (and a carbon copy of Tavenner's remarks): “I want to assure you that HealthCare.gov can be fixed, and we are working around the clock to give you the experience that you deserve.”

 

Tavenner's remarks yesterday:

 

Via FOX,

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaking on the Senate floor, called Tuesday for Sebelius' resignation. Alexander is the top Republican on the Senate health panel.

 

"Mr. President, at some point there has to be accountability. Expecting this secretary to be able to fix what she hasn't been able to fix during the last three-and-a-half years is unrealistic," he said. "It's throwing good money after bad. It's time for her to resign -- someone else to take charge."

 

...

 

In written testimony released ahead of today's hearing, Sebelius vowed to improve the website and said the consumer experience to date is "not acceptable." But she defended the law itself and said extensive work and testing is being done.

 

"We are working to ensure consumers' interaction with HealthCare.gov is a positive one, and that the Affordable Care Act  fully delivers on its promise," she said in the prepared remarks.

 

Sebelius blamed the website contractors and the "initial wave of interest" for the glitches, but expressed confidence in the experts and specialists working to solve "complex technical issues."

 

"By enlisting additional technical help, aggressively monitoring errors, testing to prevent new issues from cropping up, and regularly deploying fixes to the site, we are working to ensure consumers’ interaction with HealthCare.gov is a positive one, and that the Affordable Care Act fully delivers on its promise," she said.

 

Live Stream:


Live streaming video by Ustream

 

Full statement from Sebelius:

 

HHRG-113-IF00-Wstate-SebeliusK-20131030.pdf

 

 

- advertisements -

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:03 | 4104311 Zer0head
Zer0head's picture

Sebelius: A mythical character who took the fall for the one named Barack

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:03 | 4104315 AlaricBalth
AlaricBalth's picture

Get your popcorn ready. It is song and dance time.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:12 | 4104323 Ying-Yang
Ying-Yang's picture

“The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don’t work for..."

Oh Really... I believe the taxpayers pay your salary!

"A group of 33 House Republicans on Wednesday sent a letter to President Obama calling for her resignation. ”The scope of the problem is so great that, were this a private company or military command, the CEO or general would have been fired,” they wrote. “We are, therefore, calling on you to hold Secretary Sebelius accountable for the fiasco that is HealthCare.gov and ask for her resignation.”

So our Representatives of Congress don't write your checks?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:18 | 4104365 Stackers
Stackers's picture

I'd like to give them the experience they deserve.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:23 | 4104392 kralizec
kralizec's picture

Locked in a pillory and wheeled out onto the Mall so the people can express their displeasure?

Woo hoo!

(and then I woke up...shit!)

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:41 | 4104650 spine001
spine001's picture

It is sad to see a person that has NO IDEA of software development of software security try to answer basic questions about the incredibly screwed up system implementation of OBAMACARE. No reasonable private operator would put a politician in charge of making this type of decisions. She can't answer, she can't be responsible of something she obviously doesn't understand, the responsible people are the ones that gave this person the authority ro rule over what she doesn't understand at all, meaning the President and Congress.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:00 | 4104714 DoChenRollingBearing
DoChenRollingBearing's picture

Sebelius is just the puppet.  Obama is the President, Valerie Jarrett is his oracle...  ???  This is going to end very badly, even with a sycophantic press.

Lightweights, amateurs, hypocrites, poseurs and liars!  I will remember, and I think many Americans will too.

"Who Was at the Helm?"

http://tinyurl.com/pha34tx

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:10 | 4104741 Joe Davola
Joe Davola's picture

Hey, how about instead of going with the "best and brightest" we just go with "someone who can't screw up a one car funeral".  Of course they'd have to look outside this administration.

 

Also, how did her statement end up without any of the obligatory "This page intentionally blank" jedi mind trick.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:32 | 4104845 johnQpublic
johnQpublic's picture

Affordable Care Act fully delivers on its promise

 

the promise that if we liked our healthcare we could keep it?

that promise , or some other promise?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:20 | 4104785 DoChenRollingBearing
DoChenRollingBearing's picture

These software problems are likely just the beginning.  Fringe Blogger Bearing predicted many problems with Obamacare back in June, 2012.  

You ain`t seen nothing yet...

(Told ya...)

"Obamacare: Bad Medicine for America"

http://tinyurl.com/8a3fe66

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:25 | 4104818 rubiconsolutions
rubiconsolutions's picture

Does anyone give a deuce about this charade? It's all theater. In the end, government will still have control of 17% of the economy and you will still be required to buy a product against your will. Yeah, sure, John Roberts said it is "constitutional" so it must be okay, right? NO IT ISN'T! A turd by any other name is still a turd. It's not about a 'bloated with millions of lines of crappy code' website, it's about control and cronyism. The republican can sit there and wring their hands over health(wedont)care.gov but in the end they were the ones who first suggested an individual mandate. And their standard bearer in the last election forced it down the throats of people in his home state. Screw 'em all.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:18 | 4104366 Momauguin Joe
Momauguin Joe's picture

Staged nincompoopery.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:20 | 4104380 Stackers
Stackers's picture

Unfortunately I think the nimcompoopery is all too real and not "staged"

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:24 | 4104398 HelluvaEngineer
HelluvaEngineer's picture

What went wrong?  Simple - they stole the majority of the 650 million bux.  Let's call a spade a spade.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:43 | 4104461 Running On Bing...
Running On Bingo Fuel's picture

And are about to bill another 1000 million to fix the problem and get things right.

Tech surges are expensive.

Over.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:04 | 4104531 rtalcott
rtalcott's picture

It will be more than another 100 million....100 million for the next 6 months of excuses.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:23 | 4104586 Chief KnocAHoma
Chief KnocAHoma's picture

Q: What went wrong?

A: Absolutley nothing! Are you fuckimg kidding me? I mean look what this brilliant Ruler did. He suckered the insurance companies into backing his plan by convincing them that the exchanges would drive business to them. 

The greedy smucks bought that line, then we designed a system that did the exact opposite of what we promised the insurance companies and the voting public.

What went wrong... please (laughing so hard she is crying)....excuse me while I fart in your general direction.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:34 | 4104622 Forty Six and 2
Forty Six and 2's picture

Agree. This is all intentional to get us to a point of FUBAR so they can trot out the new fix/solution...single payer. We're just about there.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:35 | 4104860 Lewshine
Lewshine's picture

Watch the Obombastic Sebelis LIE out her friggin teeth about the FACTS of this MANDATORY $5000. + per year tax on average citizens. No one can afford this BS accept those Obama has exempted. Meanwhile, watch the daily takedown of precious metals. GOTTA LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 14:18 | 4105608 Lewshine
Lewshine's picture

The one and only for sure thing you can count on - THE DAILY RAPE OF PRECIOUS METALS!!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:22 | 4104377 smlbizman
smlbizman's picture

how accurate was chris rock,  when he proclaimed...."niggers love nots to know".....

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:24 | 4104396 El Oregonian
El Oregonian's picture

Just like my children said when they were little and were caught lying "It was the other child's fault", never to accept responsibilty for their actions, typical child-like responses. It is very unfortunate that the examples of our Administration's child-like, some suggest even criminal, is a very poor excuse for leadership.

Just open the prison gates and fill it up with these criminals.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:44 | 4104469 duo
duo's picture

We need a consumer revolt.

This year, instead of Christmas presents for the nieces/nephews, I'm printing up a card with Obama's picture on the front.  Inside it reads:

"Dear Nephew/Niece/Grandson/Granddaughter,

Since my monthly Obamacare premium went up more than what I was going to spend on presents this year, please accept this card instead.  Close your eyes and remember what you got for Christmas last year.

Love,

Grandpa

P.S.  Since my yearly deductable/copay is about the same as a year's tuition at XXXX State University, I won't be able to help you with that, either."

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:30 | 4104612 onewayticket2
onewayticket2's picture

this congresswoman from cal, ms. capps, should be fired.  period.  what a complete joke.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:33 | 4104433 Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai's picture

Who gives a fuck about Sebelius. These clowns in the House need to get back to focusing on defunding this monstrosity.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:43 | 4104463 john39
john39's picture

exactly, and very revealing that we get this crap instead...   just like the the 'two minutes of hate' from orwell's 1984...  the government expansion stands, but the peasants get to vent a 'bad guy' and feel all better about their lot.   this is mind control.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:42 | 4104644 GetZeeGold
GetZeeGold's picture

 

 

Thank goodness we only funded the government for 4 months We've got some real ammo for the next funding war.

 

I see no reason to keep funding Obamacare.....even if we do, no one can afford to buy it.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:19 | 4104375 Hippocratic Oaf
Hippocratic Oaf's picture

She just threw Verizon under the bus. 

I have Verizon, it works fine.

The blame game goes from top to bottom.

How long is this cunts opening statement?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:26 | 4104408 Van Halen
Van Halen's picture

Hippocratic - I respectfully disagree. VERIZON threw Verizon under the bus when corporate over there saw $$ instead of common sense. They are already getting the blame for another systemwide crash. Watch Obama skate and Verizon get left holding the bag. Someone at Verizon should be fired immediately for this decision, followed by a newsconference announcing that they have no possible way of fixing this and will not put one more dime of their resources into this horror.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:36 | 4104445 Hippocratic Oaf
Hippocratic Oaf's picture

VH-

You missed the humor (I guess) in my statement.

God I miss the early Van Halen days 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:47 | 4104472 29.5 hours
29.5 hours's picture

 

 

@V.H.

Respectfully disagree, round 2. The site is totally fixable. Having worked in similar software release fiascos, all they have to do is listen to the qualified tech workers.

The site is not the problem. It is the ObamaCare law which is unfixable!

 

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:59 | 4104516 HelluvaEngineer
HelluvaEngineer's picture

500 *million* lines of code?  You can't fix it.  You just throw it away.  Still, I bet a team of 30 developers/managers could do this in a year if you expose an API to the insurance providers and assume they can plug into it.

So let's see: 30 * 120k avg comp * 1 year = 3.6 million + 1M overhead = 5 Million bux

Maybe triple that since it's gov't.  We're still way off from $650M

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:39 | 4104873 odatruf
odatruf's picture

The math that matters is that these Cronyists demand at least $646 million in graft, so we just aren't going to be able to do it your way. Sorry.

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:28 | 4104416 Cugel
Cugel's picture

It's Central Planner's disease -- they think success 95% ideas / 5% implementation, but reality is the exact opposite.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:21 | 4104578 Occams_Chainsaw
Occams_Chainsaw's picture

Verizon Commercial: "Can you sign up now?"  "Can you sign up now?" "Aww crap....ain't nobody can sign up now!"

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:58 | 4104512 VD
VD's picture

Sebelius as in Sebelius dermatitus as in dandruff or is that Sebelius as in an advanced herpes simplex 13¿¿¿

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:05 | 4104317 GetZeeGold
GetZeeGold's picture

 

 

Give an hour long speech on how it's not your fault....then take the 5th

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:08 | 4104332 DaddyO
DaddyO's picture

I just looked up "INEPT" in an online dictionary and damned if a picture of Sebelius didn't pop up...

DaddyO

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:22 | 4104483 ebworthen
ebworthen's picture

She's doing a Lois Lerner (I.R.S.) who is right now probably in Florida on her porch sipping a Mimosa on her $187,000/year retirement package.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:08 | 4104329 BandGap
BandGap's picture

Satan's daughter

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:44 | 4104465 El Oregonian
El Oregonian's picture

The game is to push people into this B/S plan and force individuals/patriots into mental health screening in order to legally remove their weapons. Their is no other reason to inject mental health unless this is their "Trojan Horse" to gather your 2nd Amendment and disarm you from defending yourselves.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:07 | 4104739 HardlyZero
HardlyZero's picture

This ACA may be such a large problem it needs 'real funding'...so maybe they add it to the FED's growing list of responsibilities ?  I'd say throw $10B a month (for starters) at HealthCare to 'take care' of all the lost policies, fund the insurance carriers, and hospitals.

PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR INSURANCE!  (due to ACA...its a travesty...created)

Now there is probably 1 year 'dead time' since the cancellation notices are out and cancellings, but there will be no new young healthy middle class to sign up.

Its a credibility gap...and an funding gap...the FED must fund healthcare.  Its a new 'profit center' of Excellence.

After a few years this might turn into a $100B a month funding plan..the FED can easily pickup as a "Eugene Fama NON-EVENT".

Fixed it.

heh..../SARC

 

Cheers.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:34 | 4104436 doctor10
doctor10's picture

You know she's already told Obama that if Hillary didn't go down for Benghazi, there's no way she's going down for O'Care.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:58 | 4104706 pods
pods's picture

Please refrain from saying "go down" and "Hillary" in the same sentence.

Thanks,

Everyone

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:41 | 4104649 Crash Overide
Crash Overide's picture

Jokes on us again... I vote to shutdown the government for real this time.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:00 | 4104712 williambanzai7
williambanzai7's picture

"WE_ARE_HELPING_TO_STAMP_OUT_SYPHILIS"

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:10 | 4104747 azzhatter
azzhatter's picture

Kathleen Imbecilious

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:03 | 4104318 Bawneee Fwank
Bawneee Fwank's picture

Faces the Music?  None of these fucktards in banking or gubment ever face the music.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:08 | 4104328 kill switch
kill switch's picture

BINGO!!! Nothing but theater...now go get your shine box!!!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:21 | 4104386 SpeakerFTD
SpeakerFTD's picture

The nice thing is that if you are unhappy with service, you can always go to a competitor.  

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:04 | 4104528 James-Morrison
James-Morrison's picture

She face a firing squad.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:42 | 4104887 Jumbotron
Jumbotron's picture

Kabuke Bukkake Circle Jerk

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:06 | 4104321 q99x2
q99x2's picture

Throw her into prison for FRAUD. Impeach Obama. U.S. Military action against the New World Order.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:31 | 4104424 Ignatius
Ignatius's picture

ObummerCare is not about healthcare, it's just a taking.

The Supreme's have ruled that this taking is legal.

We are so fucked.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:37 | 4104446 SimMaker
SimMaker's picture

Don't worry. When it is all over and America is just a smoking hole in the ground, Americans can say "But we did'nt know what was being done in our name".........

 

It is happening because the American people are letting it happen.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:11 | 4104759 HardlyZero
HardlyZero's picture

Taxation without representation, comes to mind.

Isn't Sebelius a Caretaker for Moratorium ?  She manages...dead people ?  How did that qualify her to work with the living and sane ?

She reminds me of Morticia in the Addams Family, or some other witch.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:37 | 4104449 Bawneee Fwank
Bawneee Fwank's picture

It would be nice to see our military go after real enemies.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:54 | 4105195 Chump
Chump's picture

Provided they stand down when the dust clears, and therein lies the rub.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:03 | 4104526 Max Cynical
Max Cynical's picture

That's right...and if anyone in the admin used those same promises made by BO to fund raise, hit them with mail and wire fraud as well.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:06 | 4104324 rtalcott
rtalcott's picture

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_zo0FiNheI

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:21 | 4104384 pods
pods's picture

I am really tired of being fed this slop day after day.

<swallows handful of blue pills>
Now where the hell is my steak?

pods 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:01 | 4104716 DaddyO
DaddyO's picture

Back in the late '90's, I inadvertently OD'd on RedPills and my synapses got smoked. Have never been the same since...

DaddyO

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:07 | 4104327 Hongcha
Hongcha's picture

Just have Michelle call her sistah Princess N'Gambu of Ka-na-Dah.  She'll set down her snifter of Courvoisier, roll off the leopard skin rug and get right on it.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:09 | 4104330 NotAMathWhiz
NotAMathWhiz's picture

This whole thing just really pisses me off.  The website is a sideshow misdirection masterpiece made for the MSM.  Everyone is busy looking at the left hand, while the right hand (the core of the clusterfuck called obamacare) is happily redistributing the wealth to the chronically lame and lazy, and to the insurance vendors that spent millions lobbying for this abomination.

The general American public are just too stupid for words.  Abandon all hope.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:21 | 4104385 shovelhead
shovelhead's picture

Not at all.

Everyone can feel both the left and right hands on their shoulders...from behind.

What you're feeling isn't a thumb.

The only ones who aren't feeling it are the 100% subsidised and the insurance co.s

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:45 | 4104471 youngman
youngman's picture

This is just the application problem...I think 80% of the applications will be the freebie application..the people paying will not sign up for the inflated prices...then wait until it goes into effect..and the  payments are supposed to start to the hospitals and doctors...that will be a cluster fuck too...they will not pay......and doctors will quit..and hospitals will close...this is really going to destroy health care in the USA as we used to know it...lawyers will make out as everyone will be suing everyone for something..usually money...

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:27 | 4104767 HardlyZero
HardlyZero's picture

It will become a crisis and only the FED has the ability to fund such a problem in a  Eugene Fama "non-event" way.

Healthcare will probably become the FED's most popular mission goal.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:09 | 4104331 Blano
Blano's picture

Jesus, I have to start by listening to Waxman???  It's too early to start drinking (8am Central).

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:10 | 4104336 rtalcott
rtalcott's picture

We live in a  world and a time where it is never too early to start drinking.....adapt!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:25 | 4104402 Bryan
Bryan's picture

Nostrilitis.  I just love hearing him defend Obama.  What a toadie.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:22 | 4104581 Manipuflation
Manipuflation's picture

What???  It's NEVER too early to start drinking!  Especially if trying to listen to these assholes blather on.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:59 | 4105212 Chump
Chump's picture

Have three, forget.  Wake up, repeat.

http://www.boozemixer.com/drink-recipe/loaded-corona

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:10 | 4104335 Hongcha
Hongcha's picture

SO sick of these ivy league bitches looking down their noses at me.  Nanny fascism.  A finger wagging in your face, forever.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:09 | 4104337 Let The Wurlitz...
Let The Wurlitzer Play's picture

I hope someone ax her why its so imprortant dat Obamma care covers herpes, syphilis an gonorrhea?

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:10 | 4104342 orangegeek
orangegeek's picture

Go ask  KRUGMAN!!!!!!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:10 | 4104343 22winmag
22winmag's picture

Bet the bitch hog gets a promotion.... just bet.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:10 | 4104346 OwnSilverPlayMusic
OwnSilverPlayMusic's picture

Hey look it's batboy Waxman, the motherfucker who is nervous because people might use weapons to defend their rights,

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:11 | 4104348 20834A
20834A's picture

"....give you the experience that you deserve." Well, there ya go. We know what what they think we slaves deserve.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:11 | 4104350 venturen
venturen's picture

Why is it every "F"ing Democrat is so darn ARrogant? Public Servants or Public are SERFDOM!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:12 | 4104352 shovelhead
shovelhead's picture

Naturally, there will be no mention of Michelle's Princeton pal who actually did the no-bid contract on the website.

Falling on swords seems to be a common occurrence in this administration.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is...

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:13 | 4104356 nakki
nakki's picture

It appears you put up the wrong picture. Where did you find that photo of John Kerry in drag?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:14 | 4104357 Van Halen
Van Halen's picture

Nothing against ZH, but she is NOT going to face ANY music. She'll either not resign or she'll resign to an even better gig more damaging to us all. They NEVER face the music. If they did, these fuckers would be clapped in irons the first time they tried evading a congressional probe.

I remain optomistic about their futures and pessimistic about ours.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:16 | 4104360 RobCrash
RobCrash's picture

Cruella not wearing her dalmation coat today.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:16 | 4104361 Oldwood
Oldwood's picture

Exactly what I'm afraid of...“I want to assure you that HealthCare.gov can be fixed, and we are working around the clock to give you the experience that you deserve.”

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:28 | 4104413 shovelhead
shovelhead's picture

Unfortunately for us, the "experience you deserve" will be like a prison shower anal gang rape.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:27 | 4104599 Chaos_Theory
Chaos_Theory's picture

Voters who fell for the Dem politician promises, Hollywood actor pitches, MSM fawning and simplistic coverage:  "I don't deserve this....I was building a house"

Faceless HHS/IRS bureaucrat: "Deserves got nothing to do with it"

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:17 | 4104364 esum
esum's picture

these libs belong in a mental institution if they really believe their statements... but hitlary summed it up WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE (translation: fuck you .. who gives a shit and what are you going to do about it)... reality and responsibility and accountability are so OLD SCHOOL... we live in the never ending lib nirvana.... go feed your unicorn and sprinkle some fairy dust on the boo boo... it will all go away and we will live happily everafter... USSA has been castrated by PC cunts.. if not the LET THEM EAT CAKE politicians running this fubar abomination, doling out free shit on a credit card, would be lining penn ave with their heads on poles.. or set afire while dangling hanging from a lamp post... Amerikans live in a lawless, immoral, bankrupt, tyranical state run by a gangsta puppet clown... They view your wealth as theirs and will be coming to your neighborhood soon to take it... be sure to smile and offer tea and crumpets while they fuck you up the financial ass. 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:17 | 4104367 Bryan
Bryan's picture

Remember as you watch this that everything they say is a lie.  Just keep that in mind and you'll be fine.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:19 | 4104374 Abaco
Abaco's picture

Lol!  THe dipshits put the site up on a bunch of $9.95 a month VM's!  $600 mill and they can now do 5 whole transactions per second! Unbelieveably incompetent and clueless!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:19 | 4104376 LFMayor
LFMayor's picture

 Folks, this is just kabuki, same as the "Shutdown" dead horse that got publically flogged not too long ago.  Or that IRS bitch that reflected the radar of public ire for about 3 days, then disappeared.

I bet those powerful senators are really gonna whoop her ass!   She will be dressed down most harshly.  With the most sternest languages.

When the fucking gibbets get set into their post holes, call me.  Then we'll see some fucking improvement, but not before.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:19 | 4104378 phoolish
phoolish's picture

This is "Total Information Awareness" dressed in other clothing.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:20 | 4104381 Clowns on Acid
Clowns on Acid's picture

There is the business of governing, but Government is NOT a business.

There is no "shopping experience" when it comes to Government, This is all Politburo speak.

Cut Gov't spending by 5% every year. Taper the QE insanity by 10% every month. 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:24 | 4104395 SheepDog-One
SheepDog-One's picture

Consumer monkeys on acid....that's how the govt looks at people, and they're mostly right. Every day, all day, is one big 'shopping experience'.

The whole world has gone pear shaped, and I seriously think 'Homo Sapiens' is on the downslope to extinction.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:21 | 4104387 SheepDog-One
SheepDog-One's picture

'We're working to give you the experience you deserve'

Bizarre. When I first read that I mentally heard a rubber glove snap. Bend over.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:44 | 4104468 El Hosel
El Hosel's picture

..... "Hold me first" and then snap me good , I have it coming. Bitchez.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:25 | 4104592 Saro
Saro's picture

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." ~ H.L. Mencken

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:23 | 4104394 Downtoolong
Downtoolong's picture

how great it will all be at some point in the future if we just have some patience.

Whatever you say Kat. I’m trying to be all with ya in spirit, i.e., being a patient patient. I might be able to fight off my gout pain a little longer, but, my case of leukemia seems to have a mind of its own.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:24 | 4104399 Blano
Blano's picture

I can't listen to Waxman....makes me want to go postal.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:26 | 4104404 PubliusTacitus
PubliusTacitus's picture

Henry Waxman is in serious need of a sledgehammer facial.

 

Everything he blurted out about the current macro picture was false.  That takes effort, though it explains an awful lot as to why this rollout is so fucked up.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:26 | 4104406 suteibu
suteibu's picture

4 minutes of lame questions and answer avoidance followed by 4 minutes of "sham-WOW" marketing and defense.  What a pitiful dog and pony show.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:38 | 4104448 Oldballplayer
Oldballplayer's picture

Up arrow for the ShamWow reference.  Are you inferring that Ms. Sebilious beats up whores?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:46 | 4104475 buzzsaw99
buzzsaw99's picture

no, only that the whores bit her tongue off

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:28 | 4104412 Chaos_Theory
Chaos_Theory's picture

ACA...designed by the gov (with HMO/Insurance Co heavy input), run by the gov...but excludes most in gov from it's shackles?  Put the civil "servants," politicians, military and all the rest of the folks getting their paycheck from Federal sources into the program.  Then and only then will I give 2-shits about anything these people have to say about it.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:36 | 4104414 Zer0head
Zer0head's picture

what's wrong with this image of Bloomturd's Tom Keene?

http://imgur.com/IX6ijDn

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:28 | 4104418 orangedrinkandchips
orangedrinkandchips's picture

Why does WAXMAN look so much like WALRUS MAN in Star Wars! Where he picks a fight with Luke in the bar!

 

miss jackson if youre nasty!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:33 | 4104623 El Vaquero
El Vaquero's picture

I thought he was from Whoville, not Mos Eisley. 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:35 | 4104428 Zer0head
Zer0head's picture

separate link to the hearings

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/8418471

 

or if you prefer the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKf7j43i_k

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:48 | 4104484 suteibu
suteibu's picture

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is the Road Runner, we are Wile E Coyote, and Congress is the Acme Corporation. 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:32 | 4104429 jSixPack
jSixPack's picture

After the next election we will find out how many employer plans do not meet this woman's demands and at what cost.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:34 | 4104437 Oldballplayer
Oldballplayer's picture

When I worked in the cable biz back in the 1980's Dingle was a prick.  It is nice to see he hasn't changed.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:00 | 4104518 Blano
Blano's picture

Too bad his other foot isn't in the grave too.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:35 | 4104440 Segestan
Segestan's picture

everyone must experience the hidden tax.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:38 | 4104450 Count de Money
Count de Money's picture

I swear Dingell (D-General Motors) sounded like Foghorn Leghorn.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:38 | 4104451 Oldballplayer
Oldballplayer's picture

Joe Barton has never seen the Wizard of Oz if he pronounces the dog's name as Toe-Toe.  What a moron.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:45 | 4104474 Bryan
Bryan's picture

Blah blah blah.  I can't watch this any more.  It's just too annoying to hear BOTH sides of the issue just defend their positions politically.  The pro-Obamacares are fawning over it and praising Obama and Sibelius.  The anti-Obamacares are slamming it with righteous indignation.  Same old song and dance, just a different subject.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:46 | 4104476 bunnyswanson
bunnyswanson's picture

As I understand it, the present policies being canceled include the low cost, high deductable catastrophic coverage, major medical ins (car accident, cancer or chronic long term illness).  We all know what they are and why one would select that coverage.  They are being canceled.

The inability to wait 1 (one) year to kick start this plan makes me think that there are more surprises that will come about and that delay in beginning the law could jeopardize their diabolical plan to send the sick to an early grave. Whatever else could it be? 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:58 | 4104702 earnyermoney
earnyermoney's picture

Articles indicating the Insurance companies are lobbying Congress not to delay. Will hurt their profits.

LOL

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 09:51 | 4104491 PubliusTacitus
PubliusTacitus's picture

Healthcare.gov site's down again.

 

What a fucking joke this woman is.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:28 | 4104795 HardlyZero
HardlyZero's picture

The problem is so large and overwhelming, and such a crisis because millions are losing their health coverage, the public will demand a FEDeral response.  Its a new charter for the FED...fix the website and healthcare law.

Millions of broken windows need to be fixed (now).

It will take $Bs a month to fix this problem, and since the FED printing is a Eugene Fama 'non-event' it will be for FREEE.

/waiting

Bread and Circuses

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:05 | 4104534 InTheLandOfTheBlind
InTheLandOfTheBlind's picture

fuck you engle

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:06 | 4104537 Evil Franklin
Evil Franklin's picture

... the experience we deserve.

That's right.  All of you that wanted government health care are definitely going to get what you deserve.

Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:07 | 4104541 bigrooster
bigrooster's picture
The system is down at the moment.

LMFAO...down in AZ.  "The website has never crashed".

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:13 | 4104549 El Hosel
El Hosel's picture

Even this Dog and Pony show is a Fraud, all I see are dogs. Where are the fuking ponies?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:40 | 4104647 InTheLandOfTheBlind
InTheLandOfTheBlind's picture

i had to stop at that point... then she mumbled something about unresponsiveness, but definitely hasn't crashed.... what trite bullshit... these fuckers need to testify in shackles and maybe drawn and quartered

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:11 | 4104548 Atomizer
Atomizer's picture

I plea da fif.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:13 | 4104555 Blano
Blano's picture

WTF who is this Green ass kisser from Texas???  I moved here to try and get away from that shit.  Nowhere to hide from liberals and illegals anymore (NOT an endorsement of the GOP).

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:25 | 4104591 F.A. Hayek
F.A. Hayek's picture

She didn't build that. CGI and Verizon built that for her.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:28 | 4104597 Dewey Cheatum Howe
Dewey Cheatum Howe's picture

The incompetence goes well beyond the HHS this is symptomatic of largess with no accountability, corrupt and incompetent individuals along with the same going on with the contractors. The place needs to be sweeped clean. As an example something I've heard about a certain data center keeps going on fire every time the try to fire it up to full capacity because the contractors didn't bother to wire the place with the right guage electrical wire to handle the current loads. How the fuck do you fuck that one up since it is a fairly straightfoward calculation to determine the correct wire guage and supposedly they didn't bother to wire it code to begin with forget about if you need to wire it above code for expanded load capacity. Who knows how much taxpayer money is being wasted on that boondoggle that could have been easily avoided if done right the first time around by doing some simple calculations in the first place.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:28 | 4104604 B2u
B2u's picture

Capps has no idea...just blah, blah, blah, blah....

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:30 | 4104610 Manipuflation
Manipuflation's picture

You can't fool me, this "Sebelius" is actually Christine Legarde.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:30 | 4104614 SubjectivObject
SubjectivObject's picture

Just so some stupid myth does not continue to propagate without authentic attribution and embarrass us as non thinking key monkeys in the process, we need to substantiate this 678, or 675, or 650 $millions of dollars to GCI for ACA development.  I have not been able to find it from a source that I consider sufficiently unbiased, and what reference I do find suggests the number is the sum of a larger package that is only ACA work in part.  There is a Washington Examiner (not to be confused with Examiner.com) article that breaks the notion of "no bid", but they attach no number in that article.

Thanks.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:33 | 4104624 El Hosel
El Hosel's picture

Great, Obamacare is now crashing the markets. SPY is down .17 points.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:32 | 4104620 Goldbugger
Goldbugger's picture

I Love LIVE MUSIC>

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:36 | 4104631 F.A. Hayek
F.A. Hayek's picture

Since the launch, I've made it my hobby to start chat sessions and engage in mindless banter with the 'agents.' This serves a few purposes - it wastes their time, it bogs down their turnaround times and in part it makes good on my promise to do everything within my power to subvert this fucking piece of socialist shit.

Join the party!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:40 | 4104648 jtz5
jtz5's picture

Awesome...what are some of your favorite topics of discussion?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 11:20 | 4104793 F.A. Hayek
F.A. Hayek's picture

Oh the usual -

Is the websites down?
I really need a doctor, I want to make an appointment here.
I'm bleeding badly, should I go to emergencies rooms?

Where do I go for free doctors?

I run out of monies.

Do you take EBT / SNAP?

Trick is to lead in with a valid question or two, then start channeling low info voters with questions I'm POSITIVE they're asking

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:04 | 4104968 Herd Redirectio...
Herd Redirection Committee's picture

Ever since the first engines were built, to pump water out of mines, there has been the fear of sabotage. 

I can't wait for the day people realize they have been lied to, and the gov is not looking out for them.   Social Security is a big Ponzi, the USD is in the process of losing petrodollar/world reserve currency status, the unfunded liabilities nightmare... 

Public sector employees have been lied to.  Its crazy, but they actually believe they will get THEIR pension.  Others may be screwed, but they will somehow get theirs.  Newsflash, you won't, or if you do, bread will cost upwards of $5.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:37 | 4104634 IndyPat
IndyPat's picture

Piss on this ghoul, Sibelius. This quote says it all if you read between the lines:

"...aggressively monitoring errors, testing to prevent new issues from cropping up, and regularly deploying fixes to the site..."

Clean, clean, clean, my friend..just to get all dirty again....
Covert Cyber War right in front of you.
They are fighting a fucking virus, folks. The King Hell Mutherfucker Virus of the Century and they are losing in a most spectacular way. We owe someone a whole BUNCH of beer. Some internal faction at war with this admin uploaded code that is fucking clobbering this site and there is word it is spreading to other systems. Behold the fury when the EBT and SNAP systems go ass-over-tea-kettle. Search FUXNET for all you need to know. Enjoy the show. These clowns are done, they just don't know it yet. Everything they've done is coming UNDONE before your eyes if you'll just look.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:38 | 4104639 MFLTucson
MFLTucson's picture

More games in DC, no different that Holder and fast and furious.  This gang needs to be removed from office, hearings are utter bullshit as we have seen over time.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:38 | 4104641 krispkritter
krispkritter's picture

A rat in a business suit and glasses.  Literally and figuratively...

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:42 | 4104653 marcusfenix
marcusfenix's picture

...and there is the quote of the day.

"the system is working, so we have no reliable data"

but if the system is indeed working should it not then be the case that the data on visitors and/or so called "unique visitors" would be at least as accurate as say, weekly new ui claims and therefore fit to release to the public?

but I guess as long as you are a bureaucratic inner party succubus with some trappings of power, the answers you give don't actually have to make any sense...  

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:43 | 4104656 muleskinner
muleskinner's picture

FUBAR again today, another day of bread and circus, so we are all blessed, er, cursed and doomed.

Who would have ever thought that America would end up with so much fear and loathing?

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:16 | 4105013 HardlyZero
HardlyZero's picture

The events are happening all the time now, annually, and in a way to provide intermission between events.

So these events are well managed and non-interfering, but supportive of new centers of excellence and FED "non-event" funding....BRILLIANT !

/waiting

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:48 | 4104670 Seasmoke
Seasmoke's picture

I see the problem. One side is talking about Obamacare. The other side is calling it Affordable Care Act. 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:50 | 4104679 IndyPat
IndyPat's picture

Affordable. That's fucking funny. Almost as funny as "Patriot" in Patriot Act.
These fuckers MOCK you.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:53 | 4104685 earnyermoney
earnyermoney's picture

Red Team parroting Soros funded Center for American Progess dictats to use ACA instead of Obamacare now that it's a POS.

 

LOL

 

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:57 | 4104698 IndyPat
IndyPat's picture

Yes, and note talking points to separate the website from the law itself.
Not sure if that is a good strategy, but I saw it all over the place yesterday.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:50 | 4104677 NoTTD
NoTTD's picture

I find her strangely attractive.  Of course, I feel the same way about Blythe Masters.  

 

Livin' the Weird Life.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:58 | 4104708 Zymurguy
Zymurguy's picture

Some advice for you:

01.)  See your optometrist immediately

02.)  Stop sniffing glue and/or huffing paint

03.)  Take a deep breath, we'll get you through this buddy

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 10:57 | 4104699 Zymurguy
Zymurguy's picture

Sebelius:  "We're working around the clock and will not rest until we get this thing fixed, now... let's go get a bite to eat"

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!