Staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon Ellison Barber slammed Democratic strategist Chris Hahn over his insistence that the issues with the Obamacare website are separate and not relevant to the law itself Thursday on Hannity.
Barber noted the idea that healthcare.gov would ever be like kayak.com is "absurd."
"If it was going to be that easy you never wouldn't have had to spend millions of dollars in every state to implement a navigator program to help people walk through the sign up process," Barber said:
CHRIS HAHN: The key date is December 15th. If the program's not working by December 15th we've got a real problem. Now I think politically, the president has allowed his critics to come in and criticize his program over a website that should have been done right, and heads will roll --
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ELLISON BARBER: What you are suggesting too is the internet and the program should be two separate entities. And I don't think that is accurate. Because the fact is it goes to a leadership and planning issue and that affects the broader goal of what the healthcare law is trying to do. And the idea that this program was ever going to be like kayak.com is absurd. Because if it was going to be that easy you never wouldn't have had to spend millions of dollars in every state to implement a navigator program to help people walk through the sign up process.