Democrat calls for ObamaCare probe (Video)
November 11, 2013, 05:03 pm
By Jonathan Easley
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.)
will ask two oversight agencies for a full-blown investigation into the
problems surrounding the ObamaCare
launch.
Hagan, who is up for reelection in 2014,
is asking her Senate colleagues to co-sign a letter asking two agencies to
conduct “a complete, thorough investigation to determine the causes of the
design and implementation failures of HealthCare.Gov.”
“These problems are simply unacceptable,
and Americans deserve answers and swift solutions,” Hagan writes in a letter
obtained by The Hill. “Taxpayers are owed a full and transparent accounting of
how the vendors contracted to build the site failed to launch it successfully.”
The letter, which is in draft form and
could be changed, is addressed to the Government Accountability Office and the
Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Flaws singled out by Hagen include website crashes, error
messages, log-in and account creation difficulties, privacy issues and bad data
being sent to insurance providers.
Hagan’s letter focuses primarily on the
contractors the government hired to build the website. A handful of companies,
CGI Federal and QSSI in particular, have been under the microscope since
blaming HHS for the site’s botched launch in front of a Congressional panel
last month.
QSSI has since been named the general
contractor tasked with fixing the HealthCare.gov’s problems.
Hagan’s letter highlights the anxiety over
ObamaCare being felt by centrist Senate Democrats facing reelection next year.
She is one of three red state Democrat
facing reelection in 2014 who support a bill that would allow people to keep
their existing health insurance plans under ObamaCare. A fourth, Sen. Joe
Manchin (D-W.V.) faces reelection until 2018.
Hagan was also one of several Democratic
senators up for reelection next year who met with President Obama last week on
the failures of the ObamaCare website.
She said she used that meeting to express
her "deep frustration" about the failed site, and said the
administration needs to fix it quickly.
Red state Democrats like Hagan, Pryor, and
Manchin, as well as Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), have
openly criticized the rollout ahead of what is lining up to be a competitive
election cycle where Democrats will be under pressure to hold a majority in the
Senate.
Kay Hagan
Kay Hagan
is a U.S. Senate senator, and an honorary
co-chair for Third Way.
Note: William
M. Daley is a trustee at Third Way, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a director at the Boeing Company.
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 a VP for the Boeing Company,
and a 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.
Donna S.
Morea was the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.,
and a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
John E.
Sexton is a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, and a trustee at the NYU Langone
Medical Center.
Dwight
Anderson is a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical Center,
and a trustee at Third Way.
Michael
E. Novogratz is a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical Center,
and a trustee at Third Way.
Elizabeth
B. Dater is a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical Center,
and was a trustee at Third Way.
Bernard
L. Schwartz is a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical Center,
a trustee at Third Way,
and was a funder & director for the New America Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America
Foundation, the Center for American
Progress, Media Matters, the
Aspen Institute (think tank), and the International Rescue Committee.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, was a supporter for the Center for
American Progress, a contributor for MoveOn.org,
and a contributor for the American Bridge 21st
Century.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for
American Progress, and the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Peter B.
Lewis is a donor for Media Matters, a
director at the Center for American Progress, a contributor
for MoveOn.org, a trustee at Third Way,
and was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st
Century.
Robert R.
Dyson was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st
Century, and is a trustee at Third Way.
Reynold Levy
was an advisory board member for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), a trustee at Third Way, and is an overseer
at the International Rescue Committee.
William
D. Budinger is a trustee at Third Way, and a trustee at the
Aspen Institute (think tank).
Georgette
F. Bennett is a trustee at Third Way, and an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee.
Kirk A.
Radke is a trustee at Third Way, and a director at
the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Susan McCue
is a trustee at Third Way, and was the founding
president & CEO for the ONE Campaign.
Michelle
Obama is an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden
Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
a trustee at Third Way,
and was a director at the Boeing Company.
Kay Hagan
is an honorary co-chair for Third Way, and a U.S. Senate senator.
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 a VP for the Boeing Company,
and a 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.
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