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Obamacare Overseer Sebelius Faces The Music - Live Webcast
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."
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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
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Hope that someone asks about how the contractor was selected on a "no bid"basis and is connected to Obama's family....that might sink in on the avergae citizen.
Did she just agree that part time workers are the lowest percentage of the workforce in 40 years? Unbelievable....
Yes, I caught that blatant bullshit as well.
In the same way that student debt is largely the result of predatory practices by Universities, Banks and Government which target the young, uninformed citizens, this Insurance Industry profit boon is based upon the government mandated law that targets young, healthy citizens.
The US is nothing more than a toxic, predatory land where the rich exploit everybody else.
time for another facelift, hey Kathy?
Are you saying that is covered under ACA ?
Wow...that would be amazing scary.
Maybe ACA will fund the mental health of those who were forced onto ACA...it would be like a snake eating its tail.
Love the CNN split screen with Sebelius on the left and the broken site on the right:
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5271186069bedde53d4a0837-1024-7...
Holy shit. CNN hedges accordingly.
Strange days.
Fine. Someday you'll have your Obamacare.
Now try and find a doctor who will accept it. They're dropping out of this and Medicaid/care by the droves and staying with straight insurance and cash.
Welcome to Healthcare Detroit.
I have been listening to this shitshow for a while so I decided to try to find a way to spice it up a bit and I actually figured it out. Here is all you need to do, let the live feed play and then in a seperate tab open up this you tube video from Tim Hawkins and they willl both play at the same time. Essentially, you are giving this CONgressional shitshow a soundtrack that is appropo. You will have to turn down the volume on the youtube video. Trust me it really spices things up.LOL
Thx for that. That guy nails it.
You are welcome. I was just trying to help.:-) My children love that video and will watch it over and over again and I let them do so. Mrs. M says they only like it because of the tune. She is probably correct but what else am I drilling into their young minds? I even go dance with them and "sing",(I can't sing, trust me) sometimes. The kids get a blast out doing this with Dad. The two year old jumps up and down and screams MOAR!, MOAR!
Looks like the Force is strong with them. That's good news.
Awesome.
Just turn off the volume and play this on repeat. It is like circus music on drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUs4unfUWvg
Notice how Barry is always throwin liberal/progressive Bitchez under the bus?
LOL
ACA: The eat shit and die, slaves Act.
Hearings are us, like we need more evidence or something.
"Whatever....."
~Sebelius
Quote of the day.....any my thoughts exactly to this freak show.
The good news for Obomber is that no one has strung together a time line of his administration. It has been one clusterfuck agter another - Benghazi and Syria were massiev fuckups, until the next one came along - three more years of this disaster. He got elected because he was not George Bush... not because he was particualrly talented in any way, shape or form. Now we suffer for poor choise.
These hearings just show how stoopid the Congresscritters are....
...and there it is, what this is really all about.
the sick and the injured, those with pr-existing or on-going issues are being essentially kick out of private insurance and herded towards the public exchanges.
it's TARP for TBTF health insurance.
people are now toxic assets.
The Beatles didn't need a website....
Some of the best bits from this weaselly cunt Succubelius so far
"We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we have clearly failed to do, to date, although I would suggest that the website never crashed. It is functional, but at a very slow speed and very low reliability, and has continued to function,”
'The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people I don't work for."
I am not even going to comment on those 2 since they pretty much sum it up what the fuck is wrong with these people in general.
Seen it a million times. They will give themselves medals and raises for "reacting fast to the issues that arose"... Or some such shit.
Its called 'failing upwards'.
You may have overseen a disaster, but you were a 'team player', and thus will be rewarded for incompetence, or failure.
Unless my elected representatives interrupt this hearing with guns ablazin, they don't represent me. Book 'em, Danno.
this bitch is no different than all the other self-righteous, arragant, know-nothing, sociopathic, scum that infests the entire body politic of America (and the rest of the world).
she's a liar and just another leftist, regressive, statist who leeches off honest hard working people to get ahead at their expense.
fucking scum like her, obama, and all the rest are traitors to this country and enemies of the freedom, liberty, and the Constitution of the United States, and they should be thrown in jail and the key flushed down the toilet.
waxman = douche bag w/ ears
I like the look on her face : battered, bewildered and betrayed by her own.
An Icon for the ages : I was counting the number of angels that could stand on a pin head when someone pulled the plug on the software!
But I assume all. My name is Not Alexander of Claperry Call NSA.
Brave stupid woman.