Hats off to anyone who made it through all three-plus hours of the livestream of CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner’s testimony to the House Committee on Ways and Means today. Despite how long it was, little new information came to the surface as the first Obama administration official to testify on the bumpy launch of HealthCare.gov took the stand on Tuesday.
The former nurse and hospital executive opened her testimony by apologizing to the American people that HealthCare.gov wasn’t working properly and followed that up by saying that it can and will be fixed.
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Then things got ugly. Republicans asked leading and unrelated questions, Democrats didn’t ask probing questions and Tavenner talked around questions she didn’t want to answer (which seemed to be most of them).
In the midst of all of the political banter, she reassured members of the committee of a few things:
- The site had been thoroughly tested
- The back-end issues that had caused so much trouble with the site were being fixed
- Contractor CGI Federal “failed to meet expectations”
- CMS will release its first batch of enrollment data mid-November
- No one in the White House has asked her to withhold or delay the release of those numbers
Here’s a summary from the Twitter conversation:
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