Rahm: 'Heads are rolling' over
ObamaCare
October 30, 2013, 07:12 pm
Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday that he had
been assured "that heads are rolling" over the technical problems
plaguing the ObamaCare website.
“I have all the confidence and I —
and all the assurance that heads are rolling and they're spinning right now to
fix the problem," Emanuel told CNN.
Emanuel said that the president's
focus was fixing the technical issues underlying the ObamaCare website. Users
have been unable to open accounts and purchase insurance on the portal, which
was billed by the administration as the easiest way for uninsured consumers to
find coverage.
Insurance companies report that
even when consumers successfully purchase a plan, bad data is then transmitted
from the government.
"We'll deal with culpability
later, because the most important thing you've got to do is get the problem
fixed," Emanuel said.
During a speech Wednesday in Boston, Obama said there
was “no excuse” for the technical glitches and that he took “full
responsibility for making sure it gets fixed.”
“The website is too slow, too many
people have gotten stuck, and I am not happy about it,” Obama said. “Neither
are a lot of Americans who need health care.”
But the administration has so far
publicly resisted calls to fire officials over the botched rollout.
In an interview with CNN last
week, White House press secretary said that "it shouldn't be about having
heads roll or firing people."
"The accountability
[President Obama is] looking for is the accountability of making sure that
everybody who has expertise in this matter is focused on fixing it, not focused
on, you know, making heads roll," he continued. "That's not the time
right now to focus on that. The time is to get these problems fixed, make sure
the system is working most efficiently for the American people. That is what
his focus is on right now."
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm
I. Emanuel was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, is the Chicago (IL) mayor, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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W. James
McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara G. Fast
was the VP for the Boeing Company,
and the VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Boeing Company.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Committee for Economic Development.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barbara G. Fast
was the VP for the CGI Group Inc.,
and the VP for the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL)
mayor, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
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