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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1213448" data-attributes="member: 40736"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/24/wonkbook-the-gops-obamacare-chutzpah/?tid=rssfeed" target="_blank">Wonkbook: The GOP’s Obamacare chutzpah</a>On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan became the latest Republicans to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/paul-ryan-calls-for-hhs-chief-to-step-down-for-obamacare-rollout/" target="_blank">call</a> for&nbsp; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down because of the Affordable&nbsp; Care Act&#039;s troubled launch. &quot;I do believe people should be held&nbsp; accountable,&quot; he said.Okay then.How about House Republicans who refused to appropriate the money the&nbsp; Department of Health and Human Services said it needed to properly&nbsp; implement Obamacare?How about Senate Republicans who tried to intimidate Sebelius out of&nbsp; using existing HHS funds to implement Obamacare? &quot;Would you describe the&nbsp; authority under which you believe you have the ability to conduct such&nbsp; transfers?&quot; Sen. Orrin Hatch <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/19/about-the-obamacare-train-wreck/" target="_blank">demanded</a> at one hearing. It&#039;s difficult to imagine the size of the disaster if Sebelius hadn&#039;t moved those funds.How about congressional Republicans who refuse to permit the packages&nbsp; of technical fixes and tweaks that laws of this size routinely require?How about Republican governors who told the Obama administration they&nbsp; absolutely had to be left to build their own health-care exchanges --&nbsp; you&#039;ll remember that the House Democrats&#039; health-care plan included a&nbsp; single, national exchange -- and then refused to build, leaving the&nbsp; construction of 34 insurance marketplaces up to HHS?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1213448, member: 40736"] [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/24/wonkbook-the-gops-obamacare-chutzpah/?tid=rssfeed]Wonkbook: The GOP’s Obamacare chutzpah[/url] [I]On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan became the latest Republicans to [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/paul-ryan-calls-for-hhs-chief-to-step-down-for-obamacare-rollout/"]call[/URL] for HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down because of the Affordable Care Act's troubled launch. "I do believe people should be held accountable," he said. [/I] [I]Okay then.[/I] [I]How about House Republicans who refused to appropriate the money the Department of Health and Human Services said it needed to properly implement Obamacare?[/I] [I]How about Senate Republicans who tried to intimidate Sebelius out of using existing HHS funds to implement Obamacare? "Would you describe the authority under which you believe you have the ability to conduct such transfers?" Sen. Orrin Hatch [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/19/about-the-obamacare-train-wreck/"]demanded[/URL] at one hearing. It's difficult to imagine the size of the disaster if Sebelius hadn't moved those funds.[/I] [I]How about congressional Republicans who refuse to permit the packages of technical fixes and tweaks that laws of this size routinely require?[/I] [I]How about Republican governors who told the Obama administration they absolutely had to be left to build their own health-care exchanges -- you'll remember that the House Democrats' health-care plan included a single, national exchange -- and then refused to build, leaving the construction of 34 insurance marketplaces up to HHS?[/I] [/QUOTE]

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