During a Thursday hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Marilyn Tavenner was quick to defend the data security practices of healthcare.gov, the infamous insurance website run through her agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The CMS administrator noted that no one’s personal data has been compromised to date in any “malicious attack” on the site, such as the one that occurred in August.
Her statement was technically true, but so clearly calculated to deceive that it brought out the angry side of Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
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