{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140228095551/http://meadows.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=468", "Meadows Questions Healthcare.gov Officials at Oversight Hearing", "2013-11-13", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Mark Meadows", "M001187", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Low Enrollment Numbers Reflect Wide-Reaching Problems with Obamacare  \u00a0  Washington, D.C. \u2013 Representative Mark Meadows (NC-11) questioned White House chief technology officer Todd Park and other administration officials today at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee\u2019s hearing on the flawed Healthcare.gov website.\u00a0  \u00a0  \u201cAt today\u2019s hearing, I questioned Mr. Park and his colleagues about the administration\u2019s responsibility to the American people to fix the disastrous rollout of Healthcare.gov,\u201d Meadows said. \u00a0\u201cAccording to Mr. Park\u2019s testimony, the website can currently only handle 17,000 accounts per hour. \u00a0When I later inquired how many people the website will eventually be able to accommodate at any given time, the officials stated 30,000. \u00a0There is a problem with that number: With 50 million people currently uninsured, the system must actually be able to handle a minimum of 43,000 people per hour if all uninsured Americans plan to enroll by January 1, 2014.  \u00a0  \u201cEnrollment numbers released by the Obama administration today reflect Obamacare\u2019s wide-reaching problems. \u00a0The administration initially projected enrolling 800,000 people in the exchanges within the first two months, a figure that was later scaled back to 500,000. \u00a0In reality, the numbers released this afternoon show that 106,185 people have enrolled in health insurance plans, and only one-fourth of those enrollments have come through Healthcare.gov\u2019s federal exchanges. \u00a0The administration\u2019s enrollment figure also includes people who have selected a plan but not yet purchased it.  \u00a0  \u201cToday\u2019s hearing highlighted the administration\u2019s disappointing decision to once again put politics ahead of the American people by launching the website far before it was ready. \u00a0The fact that Henry Chao, Healthcare.gov\u2019s chief project manager and the man in charge of recommending the website for launch, was not included on a memo by the agency\u2019s chief information officer outlining the site\u2019s high-risk security failures demonstrates just how chaotic the entire Healthcare.gov development process has been. \u00a0As constituents across my district face premium spikes and lost coverage due to President Obama\u2019s broken promises, the last hurdle they should have to face is a broken website. \u00a0They deserve better.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20140228095551/http://meadows.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=468"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4267247170209885, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}