ObamaCare Vendors Tell Rep. Scalise They Delivered on Contractual Obligations

SCALISE: “You'd said there was a late decision made to change the system so that you have to give all the personal information before you can even shop around. Who made that late decision?”
SLAVITT: “We don't know who made the decision and we don't know when.”
SCALISE: “Ms. Campbell, do you know? Who made that late decision? Was that CMS?”
CAMPBELL: “It was CMS who made that decision.”
SCALISE: “Do you know who at CMS made that decision?”
CAMPBELL: “We don't have full knowledge of exactly the full chain of--”
SCALISE: “CMS made a decision. How late in the game did they make that decision to change a drastic system like this?”
CAMPBELL: “For C.G.I., they asked us to turn that flag off or functionality off at um, two weeks before going live.”
SCALISE: “Two weeks before going live. So they made a dramatic change to the system just two weeks before going live. Nobody would have done that in the private sector, to make that kind of change to a system. Let me ask you this. Cause all of you were paid lots of money to do this. It’s been reported over $500 million of taxpayer money spent to build this website. More money by the way than it cost to build Facebook. Facebook gets 700 million users a day. 700 million people use that day and it works. The first five years they didn't spend $500 million. Did you deliver – and I'll go down the line, did you deliver the product that you were contracted to build? Ms. Campbell?”
CAMPBELL: “We have.”
SCALISE: “Mr. Slavitt?”
SLAVITT: “For the data--”
SCALISE: “Did you deliver the product? Did you deliver--”
SLAVITT: “Yes.”
SCALISE: “The product that you were contracted?”
SLAVITT: “Yes. Ms. Spellecy?”
SPELLECY: “Yes.”
SCALISE: “Mr. Lau?”
LAU: “Yes.”
SCALISE: “There's a saying in computer programming. Garbage in, garbage out. If you're given a bad product to build, then ultimately what you'll deliver is a bad product. The focus is not just going to be on the failed website. Clearly there's some serious questions that need to be answered. All the taxpayer money that was spent to build a site that people can't even go on and use and then ultimately if they're able to get through, they're finding the prices are dramatically higher. This will not mask the fact that the law fails in general. You wonder why we're calling for a delay of the implementation of this law, delay of the fines that people will have to pay if they can't even use the website. 50 percent of you who said you went to the website said you had a failure rate. You built the site.”
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: “Gentleman, gentleman’s time has expired.”
SCALISE: “I yield back the balance of my time.”