-By Warner Todd Huston
As a result of the massive failure of Obamacare, Obama’s Medicaid info chief was brought before Congress for questioning. His testimony is an infuriating example of a man who hasn’t a clue what is going despite that he is supposed to be in charge but spins lie after lie to cover up that fact, anyway.
Without doubt, the rollout of the Obamacare websites have been an absolute disaster, not just for the national site but in every state. Congress had questions for Medicaid and Medicare Deputy Chief Information Officer, Henry Chao and his answers were a cascade of obfuscation and wild spin empty of facts.
Chao began his “testimony” telling Congress he had no idea how much code would have to be written to make the Obamacare website work properly. Then he went on to belch out all sorts of conflicting statistics that don’t seem rooted in reality.
At one point he says that 40 to 50 percent of the website, healthcare.gov, is working properly then only minutes later says that percentage is 60 to 70 percent. So, which is it, Mr. Chao?
He also reports that the payment calculator is either not even built yet or is there but just not functioning properly. It can’t be both, Mr. Chao.
For being the chief information officer, this guy has no real information at all.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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