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ObamaCare’s Glitch Girl Finally Leaves Sinking Ship
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 17, 2015 @ 1:59 pm In The Point | 7 Comments
Well it took a while, but Marilyn Tavenner joins Kathleen Sebelius and the ObamaCare website glitch girl in departing the sinking ship. Tavenner became famous for her clumsy explanations for the unexplainable in Congress.
Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), wrote in a letter to House Republicans on Thursday that the system had “inadvertently” double-counted nearly 400,000 people.
That miscount helped push the enrollment total past 7 million, a milestone that was celebrated by the administration at the time.
The final tally for enrollments last year was 6.7 million, officials said Thursday.
In her first public statement about the error, Tavenner repeated a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that “a mistake was made.” She also hinted that still-unbuilt parts of the website played a role.
“Once the automated system for effectuated enrollment is functional, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be able to more easily report the number who has paid their premiums,” Tavenner wrote in the letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which first discovered the error.
CMS spokesman Aaron Albright repeatedly declined to clarify whether the website had caused the error, deferring to the agency’s earlier statements.
Now there will be no more explanations.
Marilyn Tavenner, the Obama administration official responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act, is quitting at the end of February.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell made the announcement in an e-mail to agency employees Friday.
Tavenner was the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — first in an acting capacity in 2011 and then confirmed by the Senate in 2013.
“It goes without saying that Marilyn will be remembered for her leadership in opening the Health Insurance Marketplace,” Burwell said.
No question about it. Her amazing leadership will be remembered.
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