Did a Top Obamacare Tech Official Mislead Congress About the Decision Not to Implement Obamacare's Shopping Feature?

CSPANCSPAN Did a top Obamacare tech official lie to Congress about whether or not a key Obamacare website function was delayed for political considerations?

In a congressional hearing earlier this month, Henry Chao, the Deputy IT director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was asked whether there were any political considerations involved in the last-minute decision to delay the “anonymous shopper” function at Obamacare’s online insurance portal, Healthcare.gov.

He responded that there were “none whatsoever.”

“I look at the facts of whether—if a system is going to be ready,” Chao said, “and of course not everything is going to be 100 percent perfect, and there are certain tolerances. But in this case it failed so miserably that we could not consciously use it.”

But that’s not what happened, according to CNN, which reports that insider documents confirm that, in fact, the feature passed a test of its functionality shortly before the October 1 launch of Healthcare.gov. From CNN's report: