Valerie Jarrett Cannot Rule Out Future ‘Glitches’ with Obamacare Implementation

Joining MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Friday, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett was asked if the resignation of Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius signaled that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act would be smooth going forward. Jarrett said that neither she nor the president could guarantee that the implementation of the ACA would be perfect, but that it was an important task to improve Americans’ access to health insurance.

“Going forward, do you think your past all of the bumps on health care on the rollout and that from now going forward you can change the dynamic?” Mitchell asked. She noted that Sebelius was a “convenient piñata” for ACA critics and supporters alike, even for interviewers like Comedy Central host Jon Stewart.

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“As we go into the next enrollment period, we’re going to learn from a lot of challenges that we overcame in the first one,” she added. “And, so, does it mean, as the president said a few weeks ago, that it will be without glitches? No? We’re always going to have glitches.”

“The real challenge is, can you work thorough those glitches just as Kathleen and the team did when we had problems with the website and close strong,” Jarrett concluded.

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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