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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Senators Want States To Pay For Health Care Website Failures

Senate Republicans on Wednesday told President Obama’s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department that they expect the government to recoup millions of dollars in federal grants from states that set up flawed websites under Obamacare.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, put Sylvia Mathews Burwell on notice during her confirmation hearing before the powerful Senate Finance Committee, saying roughly half of the states that opted to set up their own health care exchanges failed to build successful websites and should pay back the money they received from Washington over the next 10 years.

“One of the greatest challenges facing HHS is shoring up the federal and state-based health insurance exchanges,” Mr. Hatch said. “Ensuring that the exchanges are operating efficiently and effectively will be one of your biggest challenges.”

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

So they want the money back? Are they planning on investigating why these websites failed and who is at fault then holding them accountable? I think that would be a better use of everyones money.

Anonymous said...

And the states should be held accountable and pay for their mistakes. And we should hold those responsible for pissing our money away on contracts to contributors and piss poor project management on the states part. Thanks Marty and Anthony

Anonymous said...

3:11
Guess who will be stuck holding the bill? Yep the taxpayers. They will up our taxes to pay for their mistakes. A mistake many of us told them we did NOT WANT in the first place.

Anonymous said...

3:16 State or Feds.. Your are paying for it...

Anonymous said...

That's funny. Their own site failed, miserably! Pot calling the kettle black. (Tax paying) Americans lose, all the way around!

We The People Say said...

The Congressman and Senators who voted for this should have their wages Garnished to pay for Obama's Failures....

Anonymous said...

Either way we will now have to pay..the fed printed the money and so the robbery of numerous future generations of hard working americans continues STOP THE FED...good work omally you useful bumbling idiot...

Anonymous said...

So, is the BROWN guy in trouble with this or what?

Anonymous said...

3:16 - unfortunately, not enough of us told them we didn't want it...at the ballot boxes....we're getting what we collectively voted for!