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Administration Updates Congress On "Obamacare Fixed By End Of November" Promise - Live Webcast
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa leads yet another hearing on the Obamacare implementation and the rollout of Healthcare.gov. The Committee will examine the operational challenges in the development of Healthcare.gov and the extent to which recognized Information Technology (IT) best practices were followed. This one should be fun since its the techies answering the questions - US CTO Todd Park and Deputy CIO Henry Chao answering the questions...
Live Stream here:
Chairman Issa issued the following statement:
“When HealthCare.gov launched on October 1, testing was incomplete, the system had not yet been fully tested for security concerns, and new problems kept appearing. This was President Obama’s signature legislative achievement. His administration had hundreds of millions of dollars and total control to complete the project.
“Most Americans tossed off their insurance plans haven’t yet had the opportunity to experience online sticker shock. This hearing will ask top Administration technology officials what went wrong, what they’re doing to fix it, and whether recognized IT best practices were really followed.”
Hearing Details:
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
“ObamaCare Implementation: The Rollout of HealthCare.gov”
Full Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA)
9:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
Witnesses:
Mr. Frank Baitman
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Mr. Henry Chao
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Deputy Director of the Office of Information Services
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Mr. Todd Park
U.S. Chief Technology Officer
Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
Previously Chief Technology Officer
Department of Health and Human Services
Mr. Steve VanRoekel
U.S. Chief Information Officer
Administrator, Office of Electronic Government
Office of Management and Budget
Mr. David Powner
Director, Information Technology Management Issues
Government Accountability Office
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Obamacare ain't gonna be fixed, until it's nixed...
Sure, the average, working-class slob can afford another bill each month, especially one for several hundred dollars...
You D.C. clowns just won't get understand...until you're dangling from the end of a rope, gasping, "But it wasn't my fault"...
Yup. It must be very comforting for those backing Obamacare to know that so much focus is being placed on a failed website that public discussions are rerouted from what a disaster it is anyway, website or not.
Yep, the problem is not the effin website. The problem is Obamacare, period.
Any redeaming qualities it might have could have been written in five pages then read and understood by the public. That is precisely why they came up with a 2000+ page document which to date no one has read.
I've decided to just keep my old insurance.
"....I promise that you can keep your old insurance, your doctor, and your hospital......for the length of time it took me to say that only."
In Soviet America, your insurance decides whether or not to keep you.
if earnest angley can make a person walk, one would think a messiah could just lay hands and make everything o' tay...
actually, WB's earlier stuxnet diagram does a pretty good job of illustrating barak'obum health care.
one size fits all at dot gov.
I meant to say, "just won't get, or understand"...but the message obviously got through.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say.
"Obamacare ain't gonna be fixed, until it's nixed..."
Give Croesus a cigar! Oops, that would make you a smoker and your rates would go up. Give Croesus a granola bar! This whole website thing is sleight of hand. It's not about a website, it's about the law. With all due respect (I just threw up a little in my mouth) to John Roberts and his black robed colleagues, to force people to buy a product or service is immoral. I don't give a crap about the method used to sign people up, I do care that they are being forced at gunpoint to purchase a service they have no interest in at highly inflated rates because the law requires that "pre-existing conditions" be included in the coverage. What a load of crap. "Hey Allstate, my car engine just seized up because I didn't put oil in the crankcase, can you go ahead and sign me up and replace the engine?" which incidentally is the same as "Hey Blue Shield, my heart just stopped because I love to eat at McDonald's 9 times a week and never exercise, can you go ahead and sign me up and refer me to a cardiologist?"
One wonders if John Roberts now regrets that idiotic ruling.
IT WILL!! AND NOW YOU GOT THE MONTH WHEN IT WILL BE FIXED!!!
NOW YOU ONLY NEED THE YEAR AND YOU CAN START COUNTING DOWN THE DECADES!!
Nove Never?
That would be the 12th of never. At this point who really gives a shit?
What needs to be fixed is the $300 'affordable' monthly premium for people making $9hr with huge student loans living at home, fuck the website. Going to the hospital with a hangnail and coming home with a $35,000.00 bill doesn't help either.
Obama: Obamacare is not a tax!
Supreme Court: Its constitutional as a tax.
Obama: Its a tax!
It's a constitutional crisis since congress has the only authority to declare and levy taxes.
And therein lies the rub......actually one of many rubs. This is why Obama supporters are being encouraged to call 'it' the Affordable Care Act instead of Obamacare. It will hopefully allow the distancing of the president from this debacle although clearly that is not working.
Its a non-constitutional two-step because only the House is granted taxing power. Since the ACA bill originated in the Senate, Justice Roberts rewriting of the bill's language from the bench of "penalty" to "tax," besides being illegal, gave Team Red the tax origination authority trump card to stop it. But, non-surprisingly they decided not to follow up with that. They are just as guilty as Team Blue for this legislative Rosemary's Baby.
I believe another ZHer posted this observation after Roberts ruling was made.
I wonder if they consider a 90% non compliance rate an operational problem......
yeah, the website, that's the problem with owebomba-care. lulz lulz lulz
ObamaScare website cover girl being cyber-bullied
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/11/thanks-obama-healthcaregovs-covergirl-being-cyberbullied/71540/
Yep, this meme is officially played out. Congressional hearings are always the death nell.
My only thought on the topic at this point is, was the website just a calculated distraction? Everyone I've heard from was smart enough to sign up at the Medicaid website when they couldn't get through on healthcare.gov.... Was this whole thing just an evil plan to funnel people into medicaid ?
The free shit army conquers again!
Brilliant!
hey they cancelled ten million policies but on the bright side 40,000 people were added via the dotguv website. :roll:
Who is this chump. Fuck your opinion you fucking twat. This is a sham and you are shameful to be trying to justify it. Fuck you.
Fuck off. Big upping a fucking waste of space. This is bullshit.
Don't hold back....tell us what you really think.
Feel free to explain your down tick!
Outside iof Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars, this is easily the biggest clusterfuck in govt. in the past 75 years.
Couldn't all of this have been accomplished by a web site that simply compiled a list of available plans by zip which then directs the customer to buy the selected plan directly from the provider...and finally adding another section to the 1040 that would qualify the tax payer for a tax credit?
Can't have the sheeple seeing what the plans actually cost without Uncle Sugar. As far a a tax credit, most don't have 2 nickles to rub together much less waiting for a tax credit.
This thing is a complete disaster.
Yes, but then there would be no excuse to create a system that gathers every shred of personal data about you, from every federal database, making it all accessible to 'navigators'.
It is enjoyable, however, that the 0bama sycophants have zero idea what to do with this mess. I mean politically they can't even figure out which direction they most need to cover their ass from.
Prediction: when it isn't fixed by Dec 1, 0bama just completely ignores the entire thing like it never happened and moves on to immigration or global warming or some other useless shit.
Barry's already trying to "pivot" to any issue other than ZerOCare. It'll be an epic FAIL.
Your prediction has already come true, Bosch.
Why else do you think the US via Herman Munster has been negotiating with the Iranians for the first time in decades? So Odumbo can roll out some PR shit about a "historic agreement reached" with the enemy. Do bear in mind that this is a short month after Iran was the anti-Chist supporting Assad. Pure deflection from the catastrophic fuck up at home that bears the Kenyan village idiot's name.
Kenyan village idiot --classic +tu
Also this was fucking great:
Here is the email I read on the air tonightThis message came to us from Bill in Kentucky.
"Putting things in perspective: March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days. December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day. What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage. Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin - all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!! And in that amount of time - this administration can't build a working webpage."
If there's one thing a gangster politican doesn't need to worry about, it's being investigated by the tiny mind of Darrell Issa.
He hasn't produced one single result in all of his sham investigations.
If you are in the area, just make sure your car doors are locked.
Does Issa have the authority to arrest Holder for contempt? Yup:
Despite voting to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress, there’s little House Republicans can do in the short term to compel him to turn over documents — unless it wanted to revisit a long-dormant power and arrest him.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/house-could-arrest-holder-with-inherent-contempt-p/#ixzz2kXk4IN9o
It makes ZERO pile of squat if the website WAS 100% spot on,it will not work because only a infintessimal number will ever use it because NO ONE can afford the rates/amd the deductibles.
Affordable CARE?,What a joke.For who?,people who make six figures plus a year?.So it goes online and works stlll EPIC FAIL.
I have a question. If this steaming pile of shit cost almost $400 million dollars and there are only 317 million Americans, why not give every man, woman, and child a million dollar check so they could go take care of shit themselves?!
ummm......a dollar check?
not a math major i presume
Might want to check that math....
FUCK LOL
I had to down vote my self for that.
REMINDER: Never post before finishing your first cup of coffee!
I upvoted you for downvoting yourself.
Thats government accounting
he has the blue dress media covering for him. but it wont help , wallets are slaming shut. merry xmas. see ya at dollar general
Hmm all this concern over fixing a $400 million website waste of tax money and not a peep about fixing the law that screws us out of our Blue Cross Blue Shield so the parasites can breed and feed.
Very nice. Oh that's right, Barry said he's sorry. See? All better now. Get back to work.
I fully believe that finding all these software bugs, will be like trying to count mouse farts in a wind tunnel.
Oh there's his get out - he's only been there for 18 months. NEXT.
Bullshit.
Oh god. What doesn't this guy want to take credit for??? .... oh, yeah Healthcare.gov Lol.
This guy was a box packer. The best of the best. Fuck off.
There is not one techie between them. Whitewash ensues.
Even the hearings are a clusterfuck
Conyers is such an ass. Whats to keep on throwing softballs.
I am a software developer (not websites, but the process is the same). The way to develop a code that works is to start with some basic functionality and incrementally add capability to it, testing it after every incremental addition to make sure the code still works. What the ass-clowns who designed the Obamacare website appear to have done is to write the entire application in pieces, connected the pieces together, and then switched it on and hoped everything worked. Of course it didn't work, and when you do it that way the code is virtually impossible to debug because you don't know what caused the problem. With the incremental approach, if it doesn't work you know exactly where to look for the bug.
So you are referring to an iterative SDLC approach or maybe a Agile methodology using sprints to develop test and deploy
Why is anyone with a "D" after their name even allowed in?
I thought folks who created the mess & drove the car in the ditch shouldn't be allowed an opinion?
Cant fix stupid.
Henry Chao is quite a class act "expert" with his multiple refusals to answer the committee's questions - because he doesn't have the transcript of his own testimony!
Can't remember all his lies it seems.
Remember, the arrogant slant refused to testify... like most others in this POS administration... and the towel Boy Cummings says that no subpoenas should be issued... what an asshole. Even Dianne Feinberg, or whatever her name is, is running for cover... pelosi is at the undertakers getting another face lift.
Uparrow for the pelosi face lift comment.
November of which year?
I had to do a double take on the:
"Government Accountability Office"
I find it strange that such an outfit even exists, especially in the present administration (or the last three or four). It has to be one of the more useless bureaucracies in DC.
The "Gold Standard" of nigger rigged software.
Over Promise and Under Deliver - the Obama way.
Is that bass ackwards?
Brooks Law...simply awesome!