WASHINGTON – The official in charge of the glitch-plagued ObamaCare Web site got taken to the woodshed Monday by some of Senate’s most liberal Democrats.
“There has been a crisis of confidence created in the dysfunctional nature of the website, cancellation of policies and sticker shock for some people,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), a die-hard liberal and usually a staunch supporter of President Obama, fumed at Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner.
Tevenner, on the hot seat in front of the Democratic-led Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, pledged that HealthCare.gov was getting better every day and that the administration would launch a media campaign to entice Americans back to the site.
“I would encourage folks, if they have not gone onto the website in the last few days, to go onto the website,” she said.
She said the site can now process nearly 17,000 registrants per hour, or 5 per second, with “almost no errors.”
Almost on cue, the Web site crashed again for about 90 minutes in middle of the hearing.
Taverner also admitted that the administration didn’t perform a full security check on the Web site before it launched on Oct. 1.
Concerns that peoples’ personal information is at risk on the site is another issue dogging the ObamaCare rollout.
“We couldn’t test live until we went live,” Tavenner said.
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