Joe Riggo News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Healthcare.gov's lead contractors test before congress about the problems plaguing the web sites with even democrats voicing their frustration. >> there are thousands of web sites that handle concurrent volumes far larger than what healthcare.gov was faced with. amazon and ebay don't crash the week before christmas, and pro flowers doesn't crash on valentine's day. >> other democrats have joined the call for an extension on the deadline to enroll in the healthcare exchanges. so, could we see a delay in the individual mandate? after all, let's ask wall street journal columnist, dan, and kim, an...

If the young, healthy people pull back from obama care. >> joe, is this just a technical or management problem that they didn't hire the right computer science. they could have gone to ebay or something like that, obviously, that's one element. or something larger here? >> you mentioned deliberate political choices earlier. that really does factor into the failure of the exchanges so far. so, for example, one thing we learned at this hearing was that hhs was acting as the general manager of the 55 contractors who were spending actually about $1 billion we now know on building this website. and...

The fingerpointing began on capitol hill this week as healthcare.gov lead contractors testified before congress about the problems plaguing the website with even democrats voicing their frustration. >> there are thousands of websites that handle concurrent vali volumes far larger than what healthcare.gov were dealt with. amazon and ebay don't crash the week before christmas and pro flowers doesn't crash on valentine's day. >> other democrats joined the call for an extension on the deadline to enroll in the health care exchanges. could we see a delay in the individual mandate after all? let's a...