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Largely a result of the decision to prevent browsing of the plans. cgi federal testified at their hearing last week that they had designed the website to allow users to browse and compare plans before having to create an account. mrs. campbell told us that would weeks prior to the october 1st launch, they were told to turn off the browsing feature. were you aware in september that this decision was made? >> sir, i wasn't aware of that particular decision. that was made by the cms team. i was aware that they were pairing back some features to not put additional risk on the website. >> who made ...

Now we don't know the which security concerns they were they were specifically addressing in this memo. however, we do know in fact, that a number of questions had been sort of raised along the way. and the system again, the big question has been whether it was vulnerable to hackers. we actually have a sound bite. i think we can play it for you now where they talked a bit more about that in today's hearing >> when did you know the exchanges were going down? a month, a day, a quarter? and did you tell the president what you knew? >> sir, i was informed that we were ready to launch on october 1s...

Had never suggested a delay and that is accurate. our cms team felt we were ready to go. i told the president that we were ready to go. clearly i was wrong. we were wrong. i, we knew that in any big, new, complicated system there would be problems. no one ever imagined the volume of issues and problems that we've had, and we must fix it. >> yes, ma'am. credible journalists you needed six years -- >> that quote has been repeated. i can guaranty you, i would have never stated that because the law was passed in march of 2010. i chose the open enrollment date. i don't know know where that quote co...

To prevent browsing of the plans. cgi federal testified at our hearing last week that they had designed the website to allow users to browse and compare plans before having to create an account. ms. campbell told us that two weeks prior to the october 1st launch, they were told to turn off the browsing feature. were you aware in september that this decision was made? >> sir, i wasn't aware of that particular decision that was made by the cms team. i was aware that we were paring back some features to not put additional risk on the website, which is ironic at this point. >> and who made that de...

Told this committee that have they had never suggested a delay, and that is accurate. our cms team felt we were ready to go. i told the president that we were ready to go. clearly, i was wrong. we were wrong. we knew that in any big new complicated system, there would be problems. no one ever imagined the volume of issues and problems that we've had. and we must fix it. >> yes, ma'am. credible journalists said you knew you needed six years. >> that quote has been repeated. i can guarantee i would have never stated that because the law was passed in march of 2010. i chose the open enrollment da...