Healthcare.gov Hearings (Live Updates) | Weasel Zippers

10:28am – No health information is provided as part of this process, don’t let GOP scare you away from ACA and Healthcare.gov

10:25am – Mr Pallone erroneously says over 30,000 people have applied for coverage through the exchanges in NY.

10:23am – Mr Pallone HIPA does not apply to Healthcare.gov and ACA

10:23am – Mr Pallone calls the process a monkey court; says he will not yield his time.

10:21am – Blackburn who decided to add that to the source code? Ms Campbell: I cannot tell you that

10:18am – Ms Campbell says she is aware of statement that says users have no privacy on Healthcare.gov in source code, says it was the choice of Center for Medicaid and Medicaire.

10:18am – Mr Barton asking about license agreement in source-code that says persons using the website have no expectation of privacy

10:16am – Dingell says we can work together on Healthcare.gov and ACA and Congress has the duty to work together and fix the site.

10:14am – CGI Federal obtained question through competitive bidding process.  CGI conducted testing prior to Oct 1st.

10:13am – Dingell reading document into record stating a constituent of his makes only $12/hour and needs the website regardless of bugs.

10:12am – unsuccessful/successful logs are kept by all partners.  CMS says it will not hand over access/error logs without discussion first.

10:10am – Mr Lau: Data physically stored/collected is scanned/converted to electronic images and the image is destroyed.  Electronic images are kept in database and kept until key-entered; retained 30 days.

10:09am – 80-100 servers passing information to/from the cloud (Answered by Ms Campbell)

10:08am – 2,000 people have access to direct access to database

10:07am – Mr Slavitt: Doubled capacity of registration tool

10:05am – Ms Campbell: These types of problems are common in the marketplace, you fine-tune and continue to improve time after time.

10:03am – Ms Campbell: Five million lines of code do not have to be re-written.  Day of day improvements.  Continuing to run queries against datbase, reviewing system logs, fine tuning servers, analyzing code for anomolies

10:02am – Henry Waxman: Republicans wrong, healthcare cheaper today than ever.  Costs not skyrocketing.