THE NATIONAL INTEREST – “’Tis but a scratch!”
So insists the knight after King Arthur cuts off his left arm in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When Arthur severs his right arm and begs him to surrender, the obstreperous knight again refuses: “Just a flesh wound,” he claims.
Given the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, one could easily conflate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’performance on Capitol Hill recently with Python’s knight scene. Secretary Sebelius had no explanation for what has caused the massive technological failures behind the law’s exchanges, didn’t explain how they would be fixed—and didn’t say who would be held to account for failing to get the implementation right.
In fact, when asked by one Congressman whether the President himself was “ultimately responsible” for the healthcare.gov fiasco, Sebelius responded, “Whatever.”
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