The Red States need the website as the other states have their own website.

The Republicans have no right to complain. They gave that up when they refused Medicaid expansion and refused to provide their own state exchanges and websites. They have no moral authority to complain about any aspect of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is the people that need their health care insurance. It is them that is important.

Nov. 6, 2013 at 9:39 AM ET
Maggie Fox, NBC News 

The Chief Information Officer (click here) for the agency running the troubled health insurance website has resigned, officials confirmed on Wednesday -- but they wouldn't say whether he was a casualty of the messy rollout.
Tony Trenkle, the CIO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "made a decision that he was going to move to the private sector," CMS spokeswoman Julie Bataille told reporters.
Members of Congress have been calling for someone to be fired to take responsibility for the embarrassing debut of the centerpiece of health reform -- many even calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign. Bataille would not say whether Trenkle had been asked to resign....

HealthCare.gov (click here)

I still don't understand what Sebilius was thinking. She hired someone who had been fired by Canada. I just shake my head. She had like no clue how ruthless this industry has been? Not the computer industry, although there is plenty of that, but, the healthcare insurance industry. She is disconnected, or at least she was, from the reality of why this law was passed in the first place. I would have never provided waivers for anyone. She states she has served as an insurance commissioner. It seem to prepare her so much as oriented her to why pandering to insurance companies are necessary.