Republicans: HealthCare.gov shows government incompetence

December 04, 2013

A congressional hearing Wednesday on the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov was largely a forum for Republican critics of U.S. government involvement in the health-care industry and other large social programs.The website malfunctions were a glaring example of how the U.S. government often fails to deliver on huge projects, some lawmakers and representatives of conservative groups said during a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee.The committee, controlled by politicians largely hostile to U.S. President Barack Obama’s agenda, billed the hearing as a forum for criticism of HealthCare.gov and the limitations of big government. The hearing, though, often veered away from the website into broader criticisms of the underlying Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform bill passed in 2010, and of government social programs in general.The HealthCare.gov rollout has “undeniably been, inarguably, a disaster,” said Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican and committee chairman. “It is not a disaster of the making of one man or any one person. In fact, in many ways, it is a sign of a failed system that is often seen in the federal government.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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