Daines Statement on One-Year Anniversary of Healthcare.gov Launch

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Representative Steve Daines today released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the disastrous Obamacare healthcare.gov launch:

"Healthcare.gov has been revamped and rebooted. It's had patches and fixes. But one year and more than $2 billion later, it's still not fully operational. Worse yet, it's just a small part of the fatally-flawed Obamacare law that has raised health care costs for thousands of Montanans or forced them out of their plans altogether. It's time to replace Obamacare with Montana solutions that lower costs and protect Montanans' access to their doctors and the health care plans they want."

A recent Bloomberg Government analysis found that the Obamacare online enrollment system has cost $2.1 billion so far, more than two and a half times the cost estimates provided by the Obama administration.

Despite the high price tag for taxpayers, healthcare.gov has been "plagued with technical problems" and "significant security flaws that put users' personal information at risk."

Earlier this year, Daines introduced bipartisan legislation to protect Americans' personal information while using healthcare.gov by requiring cybersecurity safeguards be put in place.

Daines also secured new security measures to protect Americans' personal information while using federal websites, including healthcare.gov, with an amendment to the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act.

The defective website is just one part of the President's health care law that has gone significantly over budget.

Obamacare has already cost taxpayers $73 billion, "far greater than anything publicly discussed" and "substantially greater than what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) initially estimated health reform would cost by this point."

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