A CMS official was in the hot seat on Tuesday at a House hearing for the botched rollout of the federal health care website. Henry Chao, an IT expert and the point of contact for contractors building the site, testified about the security issues with Healthcare.gov. The Obama administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were warned in April that there was not enough time to complete testing before the launch of Healthcare.gov, according to a document released by a House committee investigating the site's rollout. The document, a 15-page slideshow obtained by the Energy and Commerce Committee from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., compares the best situation when rolling out a website like Healthcare.gov with what the site's developers were facing. The presentation was given to a group including Sebelius and Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS agency responsible for the rollout on April 4 , according to the committee. Republicans are now questioning testimony Sebelius gave at a hearing two weeks ago.
