What Happened to Obama’s ‘Transparency’ Pledge? HHS Conspires With Exchanges Not to Divulge Site Stats

President Barack Obama’s signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010. The President signed the bill with 22 different pens.

“The Obama Administration has announced it is ‘bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government’ to fix the seemingly endless problems with the healthcare exchange website, but has not provided details about what the problems are, who is being enlisted to solve them and how long the process is expected to take,” the committee said in a statement Wednesday.

Issa’s letters ask the tech giants to disclose any communication they have had with the administration regarding Healthcare.gov since Oct. 1.

“Despite the President’s assertion that ‘we’re well into a tech surge’ neither the White House nor HHS is providing additional details about which private sector companies have been engaged or whether they are being engaged through the appropriate procurement processes,” Chairman Issa writes.

The companies will have until Oct. 25 to respond to the committee’s request.

Issa said the committee is forced to ask the tech companies since the administration has been secretive regarding the website’s launch. HHS has refused to say how many people have been able to successfully sign up for Obamacare, and is asking insurance companies not to release their exchange numbers.