healthcare.gov Hearing

Here are the testimonies of the healthcare.gov contractors for Congress. Note that QSSI is located here in Columbia, with offices on Governor Warfield and Little Patuxent. They have been name prime contractor to fix healthcare.gov. Normally, I would be glad that a local company is playing a major role in what could be the most visible software project ever. However, QSSI was bought out by United Health Group, the largest health carrier in the US, after QSSI was awarded the contract for their part of healthcare.gov. This was clearly a conflict of interest but it was not mentioned in the House hearings.

Possibly the lowest point of the hearing was Joe Barton's claim that healthcare.gov was not HIPAA compliant, and got push back from Frank Pallone. Move the time slider near 01:09:58 to see Barton; Pallone responds six minutes later. Our Congressman John Sarbanes has his say near 03:04:28.

Obama on healthcare.gov

While we were talking, Obama defended the ACA while promising to get the website fixed. What made the news was that a diabetic pregnant woman behind him almost fainted. Obama turned around and steadied her until help arrived. No doubt conservative media would use this incident to criticize Obama. But see for yourself what really happen here on CSPAN. The woman in a red dress over Obama's right shoulder start to get dizzy 25 minutes into the video.

The woman tweeted that she was okay.