A former federal official who predicted in September that HealthCare.gov would have huge problems says the president should replace the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general.
The former official, Michael Astrue, was the commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 2007 to 2013.
Astrue said Daniel Levinson, the HHS inspector general, contributed to the problems at HealthCare.gov and other components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges by failing to devote more of the resources of his office to PPACA-related audits.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
