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Have had problems in the system and certainly the contracting partners did not. >> and did hss respond to the recommendations? sebelius: i was not in the meeting, i don't know who they talk to. i will get back to you. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. green. >> madam secretary, thank you for taking time to be here today. i represent parts of east and north houston harris county. our district has one of the highest uninsured rates in the country. even worse we have one of the highest rates of people who have jobs but don't receive insurance through their employer. it's for this reas...
System is brand new and no one has operated a system like this before to any degree. so we always through knew there there would be the possibility that thing would go wrong. no one indicated this could possibly go this wrong. >> name some of the officials that gave you the advice that there were certificates problems. >> again, we had a series of meetings with teams from cms. i was always advised that there is always a rick with a new product and a new site. but never suggested that we delay the launch of october 1st, nor did our contracting partners ever suggest that to us. >> thank you, mad...
Estimated the degree to which we've had problems in the system and certainly the contracting partners did not. >> and did hhs respond to the insurers' recommendation to delay the launch? >> sir, i can't -- i wasn't in the meeting. i don't know what occurred in the meeting and i don't know who they talked to. >> can you find out and answer that question for us? >> sure. i will get back to you. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. green. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, thank you for taking time to be here today. i represent parts of east and north houston, harris downy, and...
The system is brand-new and nobody has operated a system like this before to any degree. so we always knew there would be the possibility that some things would go wrong. nobody indicated this could possibly go this wrong. >> can you name what was that give you that advice? sebelius: again, we had series of meetings with teams from cms. i was always advise it was risk with a new site, but never suggested that we delay the launch of october 1, nor did our contracting partners ever suggest that to us. >> thank you, madam secretary. i yield back. madam secretary, thank you for being here with u...