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Title: Obamacare Death March - Day 44 (13 Nov 2013)
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Published: Nov 13, 2013
Author: nolu chan
Post Date: 2013-11-13 01:12:52 by nolu chan
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Obamacare Death March - Day 44 (13 Nov 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/healthcare-overview Whitehouse, November 13, 2013: As for the White House Web page still saying "If you like your health-care plan you can keep it," Jay Leno said: - - - - - On Monday, it was revealed that Henry Chao, Chief PM, testified in closed session that "he was unaware of a Sept. 3 government memo written by another senior official at CMS. It found two high-risk issues, which are redacted for security reasons. The memo said 'the threat and risk potential (to the system) is limitless.' The memo shows CMS gave deadlines of mid-2014 and early 2015 to address them." The memo was written by Tony Trenkle, CMS CIO, who just left unexpectedly for unexplained reasons with retirement effective Friday. That just happens to be the day the enrollment numbers are due to come out. On Tuesday, it was reported that Jeffrey Zients had stated that he was not previously made aware of all the security problems with the software. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park has been subpoenaed to appear Wednesday before Darryl Issa's committee. The Democrats have been wailing like babies about the subpoena. The administration has claimed that he is too busy working on fixing the software and does not have time to prepare and appear. Bill Clinton advised that President Obama should keep the promise the government made to the American people. Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced that she is co-sponsoring a related bill to be introduced by Sen. Mary Landrieu. It was reported that Congressional Democrats gave the White House until Friday to do something significant about Health Care or they would back the bill. The enrollment report is due Friday. The administration indicated that it would use a nonstandard definition of enrollee which would include people who had selected a plan to their website "shopping cart," even if they had not purchased any plan. Insurance companies don't count anyone until the first payment is received. If these people are truly enrolled, everybody could put a plan in their shopping cart for free and avoid the individual mandate tax. There was no indication if the administration with provide or withhold demographic data such as how many young people enrolled. Also significant would be how many paying enrollees signed up versus how many signed up for Medicaid.
"If you like your plan you can keep it and you won't have to change a thing due to the health care law."
"The White House said they're trying to change it, they just can't log on!"
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