[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             WHO SHOULD BE FIRED FOR THIS HEALTH CARE MESS?

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, last week, I asked the question: What does 
it take for someone to get fired by this administration? We were faced 
with the serial incompetence of the rollout of the healthcare.gov Web 
site. Then, late last week, someone was fired--not for incompetence, 
but for daring to criticize the administration.
  District of Columbia Insurance Commissioner William White criticized 
the President's rule on allowing people to keep their insurance. The 
next day, Commissioner White was fired for being public in his 
criticism of the administration.
  If the President is so eager to see people lose their jobs over 
problems with his health insurance takeover, I have got some 
suggestions on where he could start.
  What about the Director of the Center for Consumer Information and 
Insurance Oversight? This was the individual who was supposed to 
oversee the building of the Web site, who in fact misled congressional 
committees not once, not twice, but three times over the past year.
  What about the Chief Information Officer of the Center for Medicare 
and Medicaid Services?
  Mr. President, what about the Secretary of Health and Human Services?
  Instead of people losing their jobs for simply disagreeing with the 
President, we should be holding those people responsible whose 
overwhelming incompetence has caused these problems in the first place.

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