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Chair of the committee. >> i want to thank our witnesses for being here. we are looking forward to getting your perspective of what went wrong and how it went wrong with this rollout. we were repeatedly told by members of the administration that evening would be working properly and it would be done on time. but these false administration assurances seem to sway some people on the other side of the aisle. and they believed fully that things were going to be done on time. well, yesterday mr. waxm...

Did put every roadblock they possibly could in the way of it so the kind of tech stuff that needed to get done was not done on time. so that was part of it. but other part was, this is really tough stuff. we dont do tech very well in this country in terms of implementation were incredibly good at the innovation. but what happens is the nerds talk to the nerds and they never actually talk to the users. so that happens all the time. >> well speaking of nerds, talking to nerds, good nerds around th...

Isnt functioning normally by thanksgiving at the very latest, it could create real havoc with the laws implementation. we have a former special adviser to president obama and a correspondent for the huffington post. its good to have on somebody who can be a critic. but its rooting for the success of the program. let me ask you a very general question. all the people out there on the right and some in the center, but mostly on the right, are loving these problems. its this constant drum beat of a...

Implementation of the affordable care act. and joe mansion announce head is drafting a bill to make 2014 a transition year. but in an interview with joe mansion on fox news tonight, bill oreilly did not get the democratic party civil war democrats turning on the president thing that oreilly was hoping for. >> were you surprised, personally surprised that the administration couldnt get the software up and running and this all this chaos? did that take you aback? >> i was not surprised. im going t...

This statement on the big republican reform plan. chairman ryan continues his efforts to repeal and replace obama care. today, president obama met with more than a dozen health insurance executives at the white house to discuss open enrollment and the implementation of the affordable care act. and joe mansion announce head is drafting a bill to make 2014 a transition year. but in an interview with joe mansion on fox news tonight, bill oreilly did not get the democratic party civil war democrats ...

Hes counselling them instead to focus on gloria is saying as what this problem with the web site might represent overall. that is a wise approach do you think? >> well, thats certainly one approach. i think the key is that this is more than a glitch, this is a systematic failure with the rollout of obama care. and its based on the fact that the web site was not set up properly. and one of the key things is that in your interview with secretary sebelius last night, one of the key questions you as...

It is a joke. of course very famously now there have been all the website delays, and theres also going to be -- and this was announced late yesterday -- there is going to be a six-week extension where people are going to have six extra weeks to get the insurance before the penalty kicks in. extraordinarily says the white house says this has nothing to do with the website failure. but there was confusion because the law reads youve got to be covered by march 31. or do you simply have to be signe...

Businesses arent beholden to obama care why are you a hard-working american? there is a huge picture to awful this that is such a shame. right now, in my state of florida, hundreds of thousands, plural, are being told that their healthcare provider is not going to provide for them anymore. so then they are out of luck with the private company that they had. they go and try to sign up for this last resort measure, obama care, and they cant even sign up for that. this is a symptom of the illness o...

Flip. its a train wreck. its not working. in any political fight, when the truth is on your side, youre in a good situation. here the truth is this thing isnt working. >> thats true, it isnt working. but it also backs up republican critics of ted cruz who said this could have been the major story in september, october, from the 21-hour filibuster on down. the republicans became the story instead of the unworkability it seems of obamacare. also adding to that list, senator mark pryor. you can put...

About watching hearings, incredible is wrong word, its depressing. the lack of understanding about what exactly is happening here and the pretense, single out marshall black asking convoluted technical questions that will somehow be the gotcha question for cgi. then you kind of contrast that with the way republicans behaved in and around implementation of medicare part d, people like joe barton, in 2006 said of medicare part d, a george w. bush program. this is a huge undertaking and there are g...