In an uncharacteristic rebuke of one his own, Gov. Peter Shumlin said Monday he was “tremendously disappointed” with his chief health care reform administrator for misleading a legislative committee about a security lapse in the state’s new health insurance exchange.
The official, Department of Vermont Health Access Commissioner Mark Larson, sent a letter of apology Monday morning to members of the House Health Care Committee. Larson said that after listening to a recording of his testimony at a November 5 committee hearing, he had come to the conclusion that he had been insufficiently candid with committee members.
The Associated Press’ Dave Gram reported Friday that Larson’s department had reported what it believed to be an isolated security breach to federal authorities prior to the commissioner’s appearance before the committee. But Larson told committee members that DVHA had investigated only one complaint and believed it to be unfounded, according to Gram.
In his letter to legislators, Larson wrote that he “failed to disclose” the security breach to legislators, a lapse he said violated his responsibility to be fully transparent with his fellow public servants.
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“Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a “categorical pledge” were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grams to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.”
The lemmings are following Shumlin right off ths cliff on this one. Obamacare appears to be imploding.
“Gov. Peter Shumlin said Monday he was ‘tremendously disappointed’ “
I’m tremendously disappointed that your legacy issue is turning into a mismanaged swamp of lies, incompetence and failure. People are counting on you, blow this and there won’t another opportunity for a generation.
If you choose to ignore that there maybe ulterior motives that is your choice, but being naive does not mean there is not threat…
My only point is why? Frankly I don’t care if Experian is verifying identites, I do care the Gov is not. The money the feds will pay Experian and Equifax could go along way in subsidies… the largest tax increase in history has been the largest waste of money in history… 100’s of millions going every which way for everything under the sun…
Experian is used to verify your identity…
Equifax is contracted to verify your income…
Seems like it would be easier for the IRS to just do that then spend the 100’s of millions they are paying these two companies.
Seems like we could just do a single payer for the amount of money the feds have pissed away on crappy ineffective websites and redundant “identity / income verification”
And maybe the moon is really made of green cheese? And the NSA is monitoring this conversation?
Believe what you want, of course, but this is what Experian was contracted to do.