HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Run

Sebelius on the Run

The HHS Secretary refuses to testify about ObamaCare's rollout.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is even refusing to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a hearing this coming Thursday.

The department is also refusing to make available lower-level officials who might detail the source or sources of this debacle. Ducking an investigation with spin is one thing. Responding with a wall of silence to the invitation of a duly elected congressional body probing the use of more than half a billion taxpayer dollars is another.

So when all else fails "Run for the Hills!"

These people would be a joke if their arrogance didn't cost us so much money and misery. So why doesn't she send Henry Chao?

What bunker is Henry Chao hiding in, for instance? He's the HHS official in charge of technology for the Affordable Care Act, and in March he said at an insurance lobby conference that his team had given up trying to create "a world-class user experience." With the clock running, Mr. Chao added that his main goal was merely to "just make sure it's not a third-world experience." He didn't succeed.

Nope, guess he didn't. But hey, a good 3rd world experience is just what many American need right? Just wait until Americans finally get past the website and on to the actual "medical help." Then Sebelius and her cronies will really be running for the hills. Carpetbaggers, the lot of them.

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Wow.
This reads like some script from a Saturday Night Live skit.

That is really sad for our country.

Why is it that once you head up major organizations in government, you can exempt yourself from testifying? I'm sure if a court subpoenaed me, they'd throw me in jail if I refused to testify. I understand she can please the fifth, but damn at least make her sit in the witness chair. I hate these double standards for our elected officials and the stooges they hire to run their departments.

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This goes beyond her criminal actions! Look into CGI. The company that was fired by the Canadian government for not being able to do their Healthcare website!!!

Guess what, our government hired them and paid them over 200 million dollars even after the fact it was known their company was nothing more than a front for amateur programmers!!!!

Doubt me? Look into it.......

I am and I am concentrating on following the money.....starting to look like another transfer of wealth to a few whom are already wealthy.....

seeker1963
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This goes beyond her criminal actions! Look into CGI. The company that was fired by the Canadian government for not being able to do their Healthcare website!!!

Guess what, our government hired them and paid them over 200 million dollars even after the fact it was known their company was nothing more than a front for amateur programmers!!!!

Doubt me? Look into it.......

I am and I am concentrating on following the money.....starting to look like another transfer of wealth to a few whom are already wealthy.....

edit on 21-10-2013 by seeker1963 because: (no reason given)

Was there ever any doubt that anything done by the US government would have 2 major features.

1. IT would cost ridiculously more than they said it would.

2. IT would be implemented in the most half-assed incompetent way possible.

Hmm let me see here, yep Check and Check, sounds like every government overreach of power in recent US history.

Par the Course really, when we expect so little from our reps, and ask for zero accountability from them, would you expect anything less?

Unfortunately, they'll get away with this as long as Congress allows their authority to be thrown back at them like this. They're equal to, not subordinate to the Executive Branch.

I say unfortunate, because we have wimps and weasels in Congress who wouldn't recognize a backbone if they had it delivered in gift wrapping with directions included.

So... Sebelius, like Holder before her, will probably go on telling Congress where to stick it until Obama asks her to show up so they'll shut up. Not much will be accomplished and few, if any answers will come for what cost the nation hundreds of millions (for a website?? REALLY?!) and left us with nothing.

....and they honestly wonder why people are so disgusted by everyone in politics on ALL sides, we want every last one of them voted out if they don't retire first. I just hope the rage carries to 2014's Mid-Term, at least. Otherwise, they'll not just THINK they can get away with this. They WILL get away with it ...effectively, with our blessings, too.

Wrabbit2000
Unfortunately, they'll get away with this as long as Congress allows their authority to be thrown back at them like this. They're equal to, not subordinate to the Executive Branch.

Yep, and there is one simple thing all the branches of Government have forgotten, they are not Subordinate to each other, BUT THEY ARE Subordinate to the People.

Until the people hold them accountable, nothing will ever change.

NOBODY gets fired for ANYTHING in this administration.
Sebelius isn't going anywhere.

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...we have wimps and weasels in Congress who wouldn't recognize a backbone if they had it delivered in gift wrapping with directions included.....

ROTFLMAO You forgot to mention TRAITORS!

Why in Hades was a CANADIAN company doing the job? Oh, I forgot. When the USDA was data mining addresses and info on farmers to add to their Premises ID (and permanently remove the need for search warrants on any homes built on the property) layer Mary Zanoni found a FOIA could not be used to get information on exactly what the USDA was up to because all the data was stored on a CANADIAN COMPUTER and therefore was not subject to a USA FOIA request!

Neat bit of subterfuge huh!

Wrabbit2000

I say unfortunate, because we have wimps and weasels in Congress who wouldn't recognize a backbone if they had it delivered in gift wrapping with directions included.

Nice! That's probably why they exempted themselves. If someone did send them a backbone they knew Obamacare could never install it.

Sebelius, like Holder before her, will probably go on telling Congress where to stick it until Obama asks her to show up so they'll shut up.

There's the "Hope and Change" we were promised. They hope we don't catch on and change their stories when caught, or as you (and the article) said, they just refuse to answer.

I just hope the rage carries to 2014's Mid-Term, at least.

Hopefully so, I really do but am not counting on much based on the US average level of observation or memory. Who knows statistically speaking we have to win sometimes.

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Just in...............

Apparently her spokes persons said, she will schedule to testify next week.............

Sebelius to testify on ObamaCare's rocky rollout

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hahaha.

Here I was hoping there was some YouTube video of her freaking out and actually being pursued by some sort of authority or another. Ah. I guess day dreams happen in headlines too.

On topic, no surprises there. Obama is going to be defending this botched launch of a botched law to a botched congress, an apathetic people and a smiling bunch of oligarchs till his term ends.

It won't help too much though. She had the charisma of a fist.

~Tenth

I just wanted to add a recent AP photo of Kathleen Sebelius.

seeker1963
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Just in...............

Apparently her spokes persons said, she will schedule to testify next week.............

Sebelius to testify on ObamaCare's rocky rollout

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has agreed to testify to Congress on ObamaCare's botched rollout soon — but not this week.

A spokeswoman for Sebelius said the secretary and other officials will testify “as early as next week,” though nothing has been confirmed so far.

OK... she folds! But not this week, maybe next week.

I'm holding my breath... You're a funny guy Seeker, good link though. A 6 pack say's she runs for the bunker.



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Nice pic there Beezzer, you captured her perfectly!

tothetenthpower
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hahaha.

Here I was hoping there was some YouTube video of her freaking out and actually being pursued by some sort of authority or another. Ah. I guess day dreams happen in headlines too.