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Obamacare Rollout COO Retires "After 41 Years Of Outstanding Public Service"
The COO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who supervised the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, is retiring. Michelle Snyder is the second official to depart the sinking ship CMS following CIO Tony Trenkle's resignation in November. While in charge of day-to-day activities, the allocation of resources, and “standing up new programs and activities required by the Affordable Care Act," the NY Times reminds readers that Kathleen Sebelius said "Michelle Snyder is not responsible for those debacles." We can only wonder at the retirement package this 41-year veteran will receive...
The No. 2 official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who supervised the troubled rollout of President Obama’s health care law, is retiring, administration officials said Monday.
The official, Michelle Snyder, is the agency’s chief operating officer, in charge of day-to-day activities and the allocation of resources, including budget and personnel.
Technology experts who built the website for the federal insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov, reported to her.
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Marilyn B. Tavenner, the administrator of the Medicare agency, said Ms. Snyder was retiring this week “after 41 years of outstanding public service.”
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A former agency official who had predicted Ms. Snyder’s departure said Monday: “She had to go. She was responsible for the implementation of Obamacare. She controlled all the resources to get it done. She was in charge of information technology. She controlled personnel and budget.”
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At a congressional hearing on Oct. 30, Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, was asked who was responsible for developing the federal website, and she named Ms. Snyder.
But Ms. Sebelius quickly added: “Michelle Snyder is not responsible for those debacles. Hold me accountable for the debacle. I’m responsible.”
The question is - why retire now? If things are looking so rosy going forward and the worst is behind us for the Obamacare rollout?
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First Big Rat off.
Next!
Fire in the hole! FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!!!
Put the rabbit nets in place, then fork 'em as they run out.
FORK AND DANGLE!!! Then PLEASE get America out of our faces
Is she "retiring" into a 7 figure job working for a DC lobby group ?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
And the band plays on.....
"Fabulous job, Meechie!"
no doubt. she will be retiring with a 6 figure income for life, plus health benefits that arent affected by the obamacare law she helped force on the country. My guess is she tkes a weekend off, and starts monday as a lobbyist for either a group of insurance companies or big pharma. the revolving door goes round and round
This is government we're talking about.
That job will be filled by the next entitled beaureaucrat. Who will proceed to fuck up peoples lives some more.
Only, for more money.
It's for the children.
So, when does this fucker implode? Seriously. I'd love to know the timetable of not procuring enough enrollees/suckers. Is it January or later? When do the insurers start having a hissy fit?
accountability ha! laughable
Golden statist parachute...retire before fired.
But is it her fault her bosses boss is a useless buck passing bag of wind?
"The buck stops there..."
Look at the crappy enrollment numbers. Designed to fail.
Raising tax revenue is/was the goal.
The enrollment numbers are as useful(less) as the unemployment figures.
How those pricks at the DOL come up with those figures is laughable. How they can report them with a straight face is deplorable.
Fuck DC
only in this orwellian america could you get a woman known as 'the kansas killer' as the head of health and human services!!!
Makes sense to have a walking cadaver in charge of the death panels.....
She's been sucking off the teet longer than I have been alive.
Good riddance.
pods
You might think we are jealous because you are younger than we are. But you would be wrong! If 2014 sucks as bad as we're sure it will, we will all be wishing we were gumming our applesauce in the old folks home while shaking our fists at the TV that isn't even on.
They have meds for that now.
Believe me now, the only thing anyone will be doing in front of the tv is drooling and shitting their diapers.
Obamcare COO got retired.
I wish by retirement they meant the way Deckard "retired" Replicants in Blade Runner.
We should probably get her a pen, or a certificate or something. really, what do you give someone who has spent 41 years on the gov. dole, and clusterfucked "HIS" signature piece of legislation?
A JAIL CELL!
Throw 'em in the klinker?
She retired before the ShitStorm hits in 2014 and 2015.
Another .gov lifer jumping off the flaming ACA carcuss. I wonder what these parasites tell the people around them that they do for a living? Or do they all live in little "June & Ward Cleaver" enclaves and play shuffle the blame all day?
Obvously, they live in .gov enclaves, where their friends and neighbors all agree that it's all Bush's fault.
Teflon shoulder pads - no shit will stick.
I likes my Ochoomacare.
Is that cleaning your bong?
The DEM party and Lame Stream Media is panicking. They know that Obama is a complete disinterested fuck up now. They must try to rehabilitate Hitlery's reputation ... thus Pravda's (NY branch) attempt at white washing (Whitewatering ?) Benghazi debacle / treason.
Look for some recognizable IT maven (y'know some Silicon valley douche bag) to be apponted in the New Year to counter balance the reality of the complete dissolution of the DEM party agenda given the ObanaCare absolute disaster.
Back where you belong in the first place. The kitchen.
Dude look at her picture... forget the kitchen.. its the dog pound.
A key step in the process of implementing government policies is to pre-desginate scapegoats for the inevitable unintended (cough...intended...cough) consequences.
Quietly slides into $800k/year consultancy role with Blue Cross Blue Shield.
According to Wikipedia she began as a nurse and rose to being the CEO of the Johnstown-Willis Hospital in Va. Obviously no dummy, but managing an IT project takes specialized skills. She may have fell victem to the "you don't know what you don't know" problem when she was put in charge of the ACA website rollout. She should have hired an IT project management contractor from the start.
No kidding, theres huge humbers of competent IT professionals unemployed. How this incompetent clown with no IT background got the call should be the subject of inquiry.
It's called Cronyism and/or graft. Competence is meaningless. All that matters is dedication to the party and it's doctrine.
The NSA outbids not only private-sector firms, but other "lesser" Govt agencies for the IT talent.
No need for inquiry. This is the fedgov civil service we're talking about. It's all based on seniority, and being in the right identity groups. Sure, there are lots of IT professhionals available, but they are white and male.
Bye Bye gash
God I hate it when they call the daily screwing these people give us an "outstanding public service". The best public service these people could do is to go away.
Yeah, I've never really enjoyed the service I've received from the Internal Revenue Service.
I'm sure they'll "Service" you a little harder next time. Just remind them which hole you want reamed out.
Incompetant woman covering for incompetant woman.
She got scared they were gonna dock her paycheck like the vendor so she retired.
when they put all of them on a barge and let them drift to the mddle of the Atlantic Ocean, that will also be a public service.
This is what I have named "the Sebelius Syndrome"..and it exactly as I stated in 2009, that Health IT would run Sebelius over (and of course those who work for her) as the data logic thinking is just not there. She doesn't need Issa as she does a good job destroying herself with digital illiteracy and I can't figure out for the life of me what her personal perception of herself is out there. This poor lady after 41 years, one more that was way over her head but being of the same age and mentality, of course she would probably just agree with whatever weird perceptions that Sebelius came up with, like this big website being done on time and hiring contractors based in India like QSSI a division of United Healthcare to write code from scratch.....still no 834 transactions software yet.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/12/michelle-snyder-chief-operating-o...
Somebody call the psychiatrist. The President has lost his mind.
I once went to a presentation given by someone from CMS at an annual meeting. She had a screen for power point and we looked at a windows desktop while she read nonsense from a napkin. CMS is the biggest bunch of mentally retarded incompetents ever.
Putting "grandma" in charge of building a website? Say it ain't so! No wonder! Is there even a shred of competence left anywhere in government?
Yes the security apparatus seems to still be functioning with still a shred of.....oh nevermind.
Kathleen Sebelius is having dinner tonight with John Corzine.
Maybe it gets hot and heavy.
O. wants pictures.
That about sums it up, me thinks.
O. will have to ask General Clap.
Screw the public then bail. Then live off of a grossly excessive government pension - likely in one of the counties surrounding DC that are amongst the richest counties in the nation.
We know what's wrong.
Just like a football team having a poor season, the admin still likes the head coach so they fire an assistant or two in hopes of satasfying the masses.
I bet that bitch was long twatter last friday and short this morning. No fkn doubt!
This token hire's motto was "If it compiles, ship it."
And here I thought their motto was "If it shits, it fits".
Abolish all Affirmative Action. Including our Affirmative Action president and Attorney General!
Amen!
This fucking bitch is responsible for grifting a billion tax dollars to her (and Moochelle's) friends, and getting nothing for the taxpayer in return. By all accounts I've seen, obamacare.bendover.gov is a shell, with no security for the most personal of our records.
This is shaping up as the biggest criminal fraud in modern American history, and it hasn't even started to implode yet.
41 years of "Government Service" ? If she graduated from college at 22, that would make her 63 today. Don't all these types blow out the door on full retirement at 55? And then become a lobbyist to make the really big bucks.
The math does not work. Why was she still hanging around?
I don't think I have ever uttered or written these words but...
there ought to be a law.
A law that states that NO ONE may work, receive a salary, or any other form of compensation from employment by "government" for more than X years. I'll be generous and say 12. That would equal 2 senate terms. SIX fucking terms in the House and PLENTY of time for any and all bureaucrats, judges, and other parasites to fuck up whatever it is they so desire.
So no bitchin when you have to go get a real job.
Yes, yes, I know everyone will bicth and moan about teachers, cops, and firemen like they are the only people who work for tax dollars. I think we can work around that one somehow so don't get all in a huff and start typing about that protected class. I don't want to hear it.