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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:41 PM Mar 2014

Official in charge of Obamacare exchanges resigns amid Republican accusations

Source: Reuters (via RS)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. healthcare official, accused by Republicans of misleading Congress about the readiness of the Obamacare rollout, will resign from his post at the end of March, officials said on Thursday.

The departure of Gary Cohen as director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) was announced within the administration on Wednesday in an email from his boss, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Cohen, a former California insurance regulator who took up his post in August 2012, has overseen regulatory implementation of the Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, a process that often drew fire from insurers and lawmakers for its slow pace and numerous revisions.

Along with Tavenner and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Cohen was among top officials who assured Congress that the October 1 launch of the federal enrollment website HealthCare.gov would be successful.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/06/official-in-charge-of-obamacare-exchanges-resigns-amid-republican-accusations/

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Official in charge of Obamacare exchanges resigns amid Republican accusations (Original Post) Tx4obama Mar 2014 OP

The opening of the exchange was a disaster. n/t cheapdate Mar 2014 #1

From your link, Tx.. thanks Cha Mar 2014 #2

Thanks for pointing that part out - I must admit I missed that part when I posted the OP... Tx4obama Mar 2014 #3

Yeah, sometimes it's not about the republicons Cha Mar 2014 #4

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)

1. The opening of the exchange was a disaster. n/t

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Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:56 PM

Mar 2014

Cha

(297,240 posts)

2. From your link, Tx.. thanks

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:34 AM

Mar 2014

"But Tavenner’s March 5 email to CMS staff described Cohen’s March 31 departure at the end of the open enrollment period as amicable.

“I asked Gary to make the personal sacrifice of moving to the East Coast and leaving his family to lead CCIIO. I am very grateful to Gary for his service and knew that the time would come when he would return home. He says that time is at the end of open enrollment,” Tavenner wrote."

Yeah, it was not a good roll out but it's fine now.. much to the chagrin of those raging asshole republicons who wanted it to fail. HAHA.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

3. Thanks for pointing that part out - I must admit I missed that part when I posted the OP...

Reply to Cha (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:45 AM

Mar 2014

... so now his leaving doesn't sound as bad as it did before - can't blame him for wanting to move back home to his family :hi;

Cha

(297,240 posts)

4. Yeah, sometimes it's not about the republicons

Reply to Tx4obama (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:51 AM

Mar 2014

getting their way.

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