During the House Oversight Committee hearing held today to examine the transparency failures of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) cast light on how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) deployed a number of delay tactics when instructed to provide documents illustrating how the program enrollment data had been interpreted.
Tactics included engaging the Committee in a series of time-consuming negotiations, providing password locked and protected spreadsheets, and even printing documents in six-point font, “something that is not readable even with your reading glasses,” Issa said.