Asked last week whether that might have been the wiser course, Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, said that wasnt possible because the law required an Oct. 1 launch. In a visit to a community health center in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Sebelius acknowledged more testing would have been preferable. In an ideal world there would have been a lot more testing, but we did not have the luxury of that and the law said the go-time was Oct. 1, she said. But the law imposed no legal requirement to open the website Oct 1. The law says only that the enrollment period shall be as determined by the secretary. The launch date was set not in the law, but in regulations her department had issued. Agencies routinely allow themselves flexibility on self-imposed deadlines. Officials could have postponed open enrollment by a month, or they could have phased in access to the website. news.yahoo/fact-check-sebelius-misstates-law-signup-start-181255865--politics.html
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