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On the recordNovember 18, 2013
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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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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