The president have a speech in Boston on Wednesday, in which he discussed his disappointment in the Obamacare website’s flaws, and made a promise to find resolutions. Obama said that the website is extremely slow, and users “have gotten stuck” while trying navigate the site. “I’m not happy about it,” President Obama said, adding that he takes “full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also promised to work harder than ever to resolve the issues. “You deserve better. I apologize. I’m accountable to you for fixing these problems,” she said.
There has also been some controversy over whether the Obama administration knew about the problems with the website before launching it. However, spokesman for CMS, Brian Cook, said that the list of problems that was brought to the president was more of a “list of things to do…What’s been done, what needs to be done, what needs to be resolved.” He added that they “worked to address those issues and all issues identified.”
Sebelius did admit that she was wrong in telling the President it was ready. “Clearly, I was wrong. We were wrong,” she said. “We knew that in any big, new, complicated system there would be problems. No one ever imagined the volume of issues and problems that we have had and we must fix it.”
