Some of the contractors who built it are going to have some explaining to do. Were going to bring that to you live in just a few minutes. First we explain just how we got here. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal Website Health care. Gov. House republicans long opposed to the penaltys Affordable Care act are expected to grill the definiteliors of the system. The rollout is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with c. E. O. S of Insurance Companies at the white house. The initial high jam of users clogged the system, which failed early testing. The Vice President of the company that built the website will say today the Obama Administration acknowledged the website was not tested enough before going live. We did not expect or anticipate the scale of the problems that has occurred. Thats on us. Some democrats claim the investigation is political and the go
We, too were ready to process on 101, had done extensive internal testing of our processes and systems, and our first awareness of difficulties with the hub was 101, or the portal, im sorry, on 101, when we attempted to do key entry. So you didnt test it prior to october 1 . No. Ness. No sir. As we evaluate the problems with this website, i think its important that we focus on the facts. My republican colleagues have been predicting that Health Care Reform would be a disaster for three years now and every time theyve been wrong, they said insurance rates would skyrocket, in fact, theyre lower than predicted. They said Health Care Costs would sore, in fact have grown at a record low rate. They said medicare would be undermind, in fact, its stronger than ever and seen years are saving billions of dollars on prescription drugs. What we need to do is separate the facts for us to reach a determination here. Some have said that fixing the website would take six months to a year. Others have
The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman mr. President , i rise to talk about an opportunity, something good that this body could do for the American People, for the economy and for the taxpayers. Tomorrow, the Senate Budget conference that was established as part of this recent agreement that was made over reopening the government and extending the debt limit will meet. This will be the first Public Meeting of the group. We have had some other meetings, including one i just had with some of the members of that group, but this is the first opportunity for us to meet as house members, senate members, republicans and democrats in this budget conference. And it couldnt come soon enough. The opportunity we have with this group is that in the wake of what happened at the beginning of this month, which was again a Government Shutdown and then a debt limit debate and then pushing right up against the debt limit, the opportunity we have now is to finally deal with this issue of
We thought it would be ready. Indeed, it was ready. I dont think we had visibility did you express concerns about writing this dcms . All of the concerns and risks we saw based on the testing that we did see and didnt see that was unrelated to our work, our work as a matteroffact we felt was on track and we expressed that to them as well. Ms. Campbell, my time is a. Would you submit those memorandum communications to us within 24 hours, please . Once again, under our contract with cms, we if we have permission to do so. Im not even sure, i would have to go back to see what we do have for you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back. Mr. Green. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Some of us have been on the committee a good while. I dont know if you get experience because we also problems in the 2003 when we created the Prescription Drug program. This committee did that. With much fewer participants. So what we are seeing now is, sounds like we have a success, we just dont have the computer to deal
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment