ObamaCare Tech Rep.: ‘We Would Have Loved To Have Months To Do This’

‘I think [this is the] most complex in our country for, in a very long time’

WALDEN: “But what should the industry standard called for here? Have you ever undertaken a, bringing up a website, being part of something this big affecting this many people's lives?”
CAMPBELL: “Um. I would say you, more testin--”
WALDEN: “Yes or no? Have you ever done one this big?”
CAMPBELL: “Of this complexity?”
WALDEN: “Correct.”
CAMPBELL: “I, I testified that this is by far, I think, um, the most complex in our country for, in a very long time.”
WALDEN: “And I think you're right. And that’s what I’m trying to get. Where should the end to end test have been done? If you could have had -- if your company could have made that decision, what would you have made a recommendation for the complete integrated end to end testing to begin? When should that have started?”
CAMPBELL: “It should’ve, we’ve, it would have had -- we would have loved to have had months to be able to do this.”
WALDEN: “Months. And that's the same – see, I was hearing that from people on the outside as this all was coming together. I chair the subcommittee on communications and technology, as I would reach out and just ask, ‘How do you think this is going to work?’, this is exactly how outside people predicted it would turn out. And here we are today. This isn't a partisan issue about health care or not. People expect this thing to work. I mean, I went through this in Oregon with our DMV, department of motor vehicles spent, I think, it was $50 million or $60 million back in the late 80's and finally scrapped the whole system because it was a failure. We said stop. I don't want this to be a failure. But I don't want-- I want you all to get it fixed. But I'm very disturbed that CMS did not give you the adequate time that would be an industry standard to test this before every American said, ‘OK, they tell me it's ready, I'm ready to go’, because you all came here and told us, and through us, the American people it was good to go and it wasn’t.”

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