...and that comes out the mouth of Jon
Stewart.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart grills HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius.
On Monday, The Daily Show's pressed Health and Human Services Sec.
Kathleen Sebelius about issues he has with the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), from the
website bugs to the one-year waiver businesses received that individuals didn't get. (He
repeatedly chased that last point and was noticeably frustrated at the lack of
a clear response.)
Stewart did
not receive an answer after asking how many people signed up for the website,
before bringing up the "legitimate criticism" about individuals not
receiving the one-year delay. Stewart said it looks like "you were
favoring small business," and despite Sebelius attempting to explain that
this is only a small percentage of businesses and small businesses have no
mandates, Stewart still couldn't figure the logic out.
When he went
to commercial break, Stewart asked, "Can we come back and ask some more
questions? Can I ask the same one?"
In the
second part of the interview, Stewart kept going, calling the issues with
Obamacare "frustrating" due to the "level of incompetence that's
larger than what it should be." He pointed out that businesses are cutting
worker hours to exploit a loophole in the law, but Sebelius said that's not
true. Stewart also wondered if they could actually run it well, pointing out
the issues the government has had managing the VA.
And then,
very briefly at the end of the show, Stewart expressed his exasperation with
the non-answers, and even wondered aloud if Sebelius was lying to him.
Gee, Jon, ya think?
(Massive hat tip to Mediaite...the source of much of this post's content.)
