"I think it became clear" to Obama in "the first couple of days," she told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" Tuesday.
She answered, "No, sir" when asked if Obama knew about the malfunctions and misfires before the website's Oct. 1 start.
"I think that we talked about having testing going forward," she said of White House and HHS discussions before the site went public.
"If we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years," she said. "But we didn't have five years, and certainly Americans who rely on health coverage didn't have five years for us to wait. We wanted to make sure we made good on this final implementation of the law."
The federal website -- for residents of the 36 states that chose not to create their own state healthcare exchanges, where individuals and small business can buy private insurance plans -- has been marred by serious technological problems from its debut, making it difficult to sign up for health insurance.
Some insurance companies are reported to have expressed concerns the site wouldn't be ready to go live, and The Washington Post said the site failed to accommodate even a few hundred users in a test run just days before the rollout.
I find this LUDICROUS .............. What program that the GOVERNMENT was involved in, EVER WORKED............. I am not a politician, or in Washington, or "in the know" ................ but I know that
