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Obama’s Interview: Most Important Quotes On Healthcare.gov And NSA

4 points by hackhackhack 13y ago

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hga 13y ago
"“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.” Obama was referring to the hundreds of thousands of people who are receiving health insurance cancellations from plans that do not conform to rules under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a “Obamacare”)." Lose: it's well established to be "hundreds of thousands" in many individual states, e.g. 300K last time I checked for Florida. It's several million at last count, and estimated to be somewhere near 16 million out of a total of 19 million, and all of the people who got Obamacare high risk pool insurance. The latter had damn well better be taken care of, or a lot of them are going to die fairly quickly after they lose their insurance Jan 1. "“When it comes to my campaign, I’m not constrained to a bunch of federal procurement rules,” on how federal contracting rules makes the government far less efficient than his tech-savvy campaign. Notably he says he wants to review federal procurement for all of the federal government." Given that the project was run by political and bureaucratic government people in the White House down to HHS's CMS, which was the integrator (!) until being replaced by contractor QSSI, politics infamously drove the process (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogged-obamas-health-plan-since-2010/2013/11/02/453fba42-426b-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_print.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogge...), and his people choices per that link: “They were running the biggest start-up in the world, and they didn’t have anyone who had run a start-up, or even run a business,” said David Cutler, a Harvard professor and health adviser to Obama’s 2008 campaign, who was not the individual who provided the memo to The Washington Post but confirmed he was the author. “It’s very hard to think of a situation where the people best at getting legislation passed are best at implementing it. They are a different set of skills.” Yeah, the woman he chose to both get the legislation passed and to implement it went to Harvard Law like he did, after getting a Harvard history degree....

4 points by hackhackhack 13y ago

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hga 13y ago

"“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.” Obama was referring to the hundreds of thousands of people who are receiving health insurance cancellations from plans that do not conform to rules under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a “Obamacare”)." Lose: it's well established to be "hundreds of thousands" in many individual states, e.g. 300K last time I checked for Florida. It's several million at last count, and estimated to be somewhere near 16 million out of a total of 19 million, and all of the people who got Obamacare high risk pool insurance. The latter had damn well better be taken care of, or a lot of them are going to die fairly quickly after they lose their insurance Jan 1. "“When it comes to my campaign, I’m not constrained to a bunch of federal procurement rules,” on how federal contracting rules makes the government far less efficient than his tech-savvy campaign. Notably he says he wants to review federal procurement for all of the federal government." Given that the project was run by political and bureaucratic government people in the White House down to HHS's CMS, which was the integrator (!) until being replaced by contractor QSSI, politics infamously drove the process (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogged-obamas-health-plan-since-2010/2013/11/02/453fba42-426b-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_print.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogge...), and his people choices per that link: “They were running the biggest start-up in the world, and they didn’t have anyone who had run a start-up, or even run a business,” said David Cutler, a Harvard professor and health adviser to Obama’s 2008 campaign, who was not the individual who provided the memo to The Washington Post but confirmed he was the author. “It’s very hard to think of a situation where the people best at getting legislation passed are best at implementing it. They are a different set of skills.” Yeah, the woman he chose to both get the legislation passed and to implement it went to Harvard Law like he did, after getting a Harvard history degree....