Healthcare.gov's White House Supervisor Will Step Down

[Old Fart]

A White House official responsible for overseeing the development of the Healthcare.gov exchange site will step down in mid-November. Tony Trenkle, the chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will leave his job for work in the private sector. It looks like the departure, announced in an email to CMS staffers on Wednesday, is being ever so carefully framed as a non-resignation.

The New York Times calls Trenkle's departure a "retirement," noting that his departure comes amid a major restructuring of the agency largely responsible for implementing the troubled exchange site. CBS news has more on Trenkle's former work for the agency

For complete article: http://news.yahoo.com/healthcare-govs-white-house-supervisor-step-down-204500081.html

 

[Defnestor]

Take that scapegoat! Yeah, you crawl off to your seven-figure Obama supporter salary and think about what you've done.

 

[Old Fart]

Pretty standard M.O. for this bunch.
Everytime something craps one of the flunkies resign and eveybody says "Oh good!" and they forget about it.

 

[Defnestor]

Did someone resign over Benghazi?
All these politicians use the same tactic. For a while I was wondering if dubya was going to run out of toadies to take the blame. Obama seems to have a much larger pool of lackeys though.

 

[bahammer]

So somebody was actually supervising the healthcare roll out? Hard to believe.

 

[Street Rat]

Ah who cares? I'm going to sit down and take what's coming to me.

 

[angsniper]

Step down of get promoted?

 

[dennishoddy]

They only had three years to devope the software.

 

[RickN]

Yep and so far 4 people have signed up in Delaware and 5 in DC. Their rolling now!!!!

 

[WessonOil]

"Take the blame for the President, and we'll make sure you're compensated and we'll place you in a new career. If you don't take the blame, no benefits package, and we'll have the IRS keep tabs on you for the rest of your life."