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On the recordNovember 5, 2013
Madam President, I come to the floor today to talk about the health care law. We have reached the 1-month milestone of the embarrassing rollout of healthcare.gov, and it doesn't work. There is no shortage of headlines about the issues. CNBC: ``99 percent of Obamacare applications hit a wall.'' Bloomberg: ``Insurers Getting Faulty Data From U.S. Health Exchanges.'' Consumer Reports: ``Stay away from HealthCare.gov for at least another month if you can.'' Forbes: ``Now She Tells Us: Sebelius Says Obamacare's Exchange Website Needed Six Years of Development, Instead Of Two.'' The Associated Press: `` . . . government memo shows . . . a lack of testing posed a high security risk . . . '' Nebraskans have relayed the same frustrating messages to me and to my office. One Nebraskan from Ogallala shared that she was on the Web site from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. and was not able to set up an account. She said that after 6 hours the Web site screen read: ``The account couldn't be created at this time.'' Another Nebraskan from Norfolk said he couldn't get the Web site to work, so he contacted a Web site official, who actually said he could not help him. Instead, the official directed him back to the nonworking Web site. The accounts from people who have experienced page crashes, hours and hours of slow service, no service, and information errors goes on and on. Yesterday, I launched a page on my Web site for Nebraskans to share their ObamaCare stories.…
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Mike Johanns
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