11:35am – Henry Chow from CMS made decision to force citizens to register in order to see plan prices.
11:31am – Schakowsky accuses Republicans of “Congressional Malpractice”
11:18am – CGI Federal cannot provide information on how many users have accessed the website because their contract with CMS prohibits them.
11:10am – Ms Degette – “Privacy concerns about website are a specter, privacy doesn’t matter since no HIPA information is passed to the website”
11:03am – End-to-end testing (the complete website) did not occur till the last two weeks in September ….
11:01am – It appears that CMS has privacy agreements with contractors to not disclose portions of the process, data and source code?
11:00am – Ms Campbell: More problems have come up, working on fixes
10:54am – Mr Slavitt: We will take complete accountability for any and all failures of Healthcare.gov which result from our products.
10:53am – Ms Campbell: The failures of healthcare.gov are more than just CGI federal’s problem. Multiple components failed.
10:51am – Website locked up and crashed after 2,000 users simultaneously connected to it to apply.
10:48am – Engel: Even if a program gets off to a rocky start it does not mean we have to jump to conclusions about it’s long-term success; compares ACA failures to early failures of Medicare Part-D expansion.
