With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar
To matter. For everybody we have to address that question. We need to take care of all of our people. I look forward to seeing how the website can be fixed in this hearing today. I look forward to working with my republican colleagues and democratic colleagues to see that we do a constructive job of making this work i would remind all that when we are dealing with Medicare Part d, not something that originated on the side of the aisle, we Work Together to see to it that it worked. Now is an accepted conclusion to a significant problem. That is improved by the Affordable Care act. I thank you for your courtesy. I hope we can work constructively on this matter. The gentleman from michigans time has expired. I would like to introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Our first witness is Cheryl Campbell, senior vp for cgi federal health in compliance program. She was appointed to this position in 2009. She is the driver of strategy and execution for the practice to serve the needs of prov
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bills. we started our due diligence and oversight on this whole process back in march of 2011. every time they came to us whether contractor sebelius, whomever, we re on track, everything is proceeding. why didn t you subpoena documents? you put them under oath. you subpoena them for the documents and when they show up put them under oath so if they lie they have perjury, anybody who lies under oath and have the documents to see what they did with it. the way our process works we do this all on the backside. that s why we are bringing her back and continue to bring her back. henry chou and all the rest of them. i blame her for this and the obama administration, this is a nightmare, the overspent money. when talking about oversight you could have been on them like a wet suit from day one. not you, congress. that is why back in march of 2011 we did start and oversight
0 problems originally? honestly, this is not that big a number. you have private contractors handling 15, 20, 30 times the volume that had to be handled here. these are answers that she should be digging into and getting for herself. not putting this off on an inspector general which seems to me more like a way of getting heat off yourself. should she be in that job now? you know, i don t know if she should be in that job now. anybody else can do the job. it would seem to me some people really screwed up here and none identified yet an none of them held accountable. it s up to the president to decide whether she is accountable or not and whether he has confidence in her to continue to do the job after i can t think of a government fiasco bigger than this one in a long, long time. you know what? the thing that sort of very disheart tong me, we don t find out who s responsible and hired the people, who s the one supposed to be monitoring the work, who s to make sure than making t