Yesterday. We want to remind viewers as we peel away the layers of this law from march of 2010 when then speaker of the house nancy pelosi said this about obamacare. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. Now were finding millions of americans could have their insurance dropped as a result. Steve, want to p put you on pause in a moment. When we come back well talk about the politics. 10 any hoyer said yesterday the law should have been more precise. You wonder how many more democrats are falling into that way of thinking, but, steve, standby. There is sebelius in the room. Martha has more. Martha shaking hand to say hello to everybody as she gets ready to go here. A lot of smiles and friendliness on way in. Well she as she sits at table. The lead contractor on healthcare. Gov, warned her, warned hhs, the holt and Human Services website was not ready to go. So what under after that is one of the Big Questions that we exp
when they came in and directly told me they would be ready to launch on october 1. so it kind of raises a question. how it can be reconciled. one destination is cgi was lying to this committee. i think that s unlikely. another is cgi thought the items flight in the report were like a punch list that could be addressed. so here s my question to you, madam secretary. was cgi telling your department the same thing that they told the committee on september 10 that the company was confident that his programs would be ready? congresswoman, all of the contractors testified here in september and again last week before this committee, and the testimony was fairly similar that they were ready to go in september. they were asked last week if they had suggested we should
releaserelease a document monthy status report from cgi last night. it looks to me sort of a technical document that has a punch list of outstanding open issues, and some of them to highlight items that seem to be alarming. for example, one of the entry said due to the compressed schedule there is not enough time built into a golf adequate performance testing. this is certainly in retrospect sounds bad. but the day of the document released september 6, and on september 10, 4 days later, cgi came into this committee and testified under oath cgi federal is confident it will deliver the functionality that cms has directed. i am trying to figure out how cgi is now coming in and saying you know, we warned everybody this wasn t going to be ready
expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or data stored on the information system at anytime and for any lawful government purpose the government may monitor, intercept, search and seize any communication or data transiting or stored on the information system, any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system, may be disclosed or used for any lawful government purpose. cheryl campbell of cgi federal said she was aware of it but said it wasn t her responsible r possibility to put that in the source code. were you aware of it and was it your responsibility to put this in the source code? mr. barton, i did not put things in the source code. i can tell you it is my understanding that that is, boilerplate language that should not have been in this particular contract because there are the highest security standards are in place and people have every right to expect privacy.ll righe
functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and continued to function. they tear down some of the features feeling it would be better to load them in later. one was the shop and browse feature, another was the spanish version of the website and the medicaid transfers. all three of those issues were pared down in september to not overload the system. thank you. last week cgi federal testified responsible for end to end testing, and they said months of testing would have been preferable to two weeks. do you believe two weeks with enough time to complete testing of the entire system? sebelius: clearly not. when were you made aware of the results of the test, particularly collapsing with a few hundred users? sebelius: leading up to the october 1 date, we had regular