Medicare Deputy CIO: Somewhere Between '30-40%' Of Obamacare's Exchange Software Has Not Yet Been Built

The article Medicare Deputy CIO: Somewhere Between '30-40%' Of Obamacare's Exchange Software Has Not Yet Been Built talks about how a large portion of the healthcare website healthcare.gov still needs to be built.  During a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee deputy chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Henry Chao stated that "'30 to 40 percent' of the federal exchange had not yet been built—despite the fact that the site was launched seven weeks ago".  He initially stated that the percentage was between 60 and 70 percent but then retracted this statement and said 30 to 40 percent which is even more troubling because it gives the impression that he isn't even sure about the percentage and there is a big gap between 30 and 70.  This portion that still has to be built includes "the accounting systems and payment systems that protect taxpayers against waste, fraud, and abuse—systems that also ensure that insurers get paid, and that premium subsidies are accurately doled out".  Since these systems still have to be built and the insurers haven't been paid technically no one has officially registered for a health insurance policy even though the Obama administration came out the other day and said that "26,794 people had enrolled on the federal exchange".  This statement by the Obama administration is also troubling because since technically zero people are enrolled on the federal exchange and they did not specify whether insurance companies had been paid this statement could be made up and illustrate yet another lie the Obama administration has told over the past weeks.  Obamacare launched on October 1st and now about 50 days later it is coming out that at a minimum 30 percent of the website still has to be built, a major problem caused by the Obama administration being careless and rushing, I think so.