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Sebelius Testimony Exposes an Alarming Truth About Obamacare

By Tara Clarke, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @TaraKateClarke • October 31, 2013

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After avoiding Congress for a week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finally addressed the Obamacare launch disaster yesterday (Wednesday) - three years and roughly $175 million in taxpayer dollars later.

Obamacare Sebelius Testimony
Source: AP

As Sebelius reached for the microphone to begin testimony, Rep. Fred Upton, R-MI, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, dryly commented, "You've got to use that mic - you don't know how many people want to hear you this morning."

Sebelius began with a prepared statement in which she made clear her personal accountability, including sound bites such as, "You deserve better," "I apologize," and "I'm accountable to you," before being peppered with questions for nearly three hours.

She also defiantly remarked that "the Affordable Care Act delivered on its product: quality, affordable health insurance."

But what good does the admittance do now?

"I'm happy Sebelius is attempting to take responsibility for this, but it's too little, too late," said Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald.

Fitz-Gerald noted that in private industry, any individual spearheading an analogous disaster would have been facing grounds for termination, not to mention grounds for lawsuits.

"And yet, she's going to remain in charge, and more importantly, responsible for fixes, when the problems haven't even been fully identified," Fitz-Gerald said.

But the most alarming part of the Sebelius testimony involved the issue of the website's security...

Considering the sheer amount of personal information people must input in order to apply for healthcare that they must procure by law, website security has long been a major concern.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-MI, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, asked if the code had been tested for security and if there had been end-to-end security tests since the site launched.

"I don't know," said Sebelius. "I will find out what testing they're doing."

Rogers was outraged. "Amazon would never do this. This is completely an unacceptable level of security."

Fitz-Gerald agrees with Rogers.

"The security risks are absolutely enormous, and to put on any pretense whatsoever that this has been a success is disgraceful," Fitz-Gerald said. "As far as I'm concerned, this is yet another example of government at the people rather than for the benefit of the people."

Sebelius' Testimony: In Case You Missed It...

Besides the security dangers exposed, a few notable exchanges came out of today's testimony.

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H. Craig Bradley
H. Craig Bradley
9 years ago

Commentator Bill O'Reilly (Fox News) quoted the cost-to-date of the Obama Care exchanges as
$ 1 Billion Dollars and three years ( Time-money). I believe he knows his sources as reliable too.

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David Zeiler
David Zeiler
9 years ago
Reply to  H. Craig Bradley

I think O'Reilly was referring to the total spent on all of Obamacare, not just the website, but news organizations have reported a wide range of numbers regarding the cost of the Obamacare website. With so many contractors (55) a hard figure is hard to pin down. The story uses Sebelius' figures given in her testimony to Congress, which is the closest thing we've gotten (so far) to an official figure.

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H. Craig Bradley
H. Craig Bradley
9 years ago

OBAMA CARE MALPRACTICE

The one prominent feature of all Obama Care Compliant Health Insurance Policies Nationwide is they all must include five basic coverages. It does not matter if you are male or female, single or married. One of these requirements is for "maternity care" coverage. Just think of it, why in the world does a single man need to buy and pay for a policy that includes a coverage that he can not possibly use? Picture a 28 year old male with an enlarged stomach and the caption: " Sure Glad I have Obama Care". Pretty silly, if you ask me.

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Tara Clarke
Tara Clarke
9 years ago

From Fact Checker at the Washington Post, recently updated –

"To sum up: The floor for spending on the Web site to date appears to be at least $170 million, with an upward potential of nearly $300 million.

Update, Oct. 30: In testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, in response to a direct question: “Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the website itself, and about $56 million has been expended on other IT to support the web.”

That adds up to $174 million."

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