Can you hear me now? Verizon Called To Fix Healthcare.gov

by Austin Petersen

Obama’s Credibility Death Spiral

The President of the United States Barack Obama is calling in the big guns to help fix his struggling website, Healthcare.gov. Consumer Reports has issued a statement advising its readers to stay away “for at least another month if you can.”

Struggling to maintain control of the situation, and promising a ‘tech surge’, the president has called Verizon to come help fix the problem. Government officials have admitted they need the help of private sector companies to help solve the issues.

The Department of Health and Human Services made the call to improve the performance of the site.  “Our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve HealthCare.gov,” a HHS blog post said.  Healthcare.gov is a crucial component of the national health care plan.

But not everyone was optimistic things could be fixed.

The chief information officer of California said that the odds that the problem will be fixed are “50-50. They’ve got a short window here to try to fix things,” he said. “Simply throwing a lot of new programmers at something like this does not guarantee success.”

John Dickerson, CBS’ political director calls the program a ‘total fiasco’ that threatens the administration with a ‘credibility death spiral’.

Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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