[Breaking news update 1:35 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama knew there would be "glitches" and said ahead of time there would be problems in the October 1 rollout of a key part of his health care initiative, but "there is no question that we did not anticipate the scale of problems with the website," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday. Separately, Carney said the Department of Health and Human Services will begin conducting daily briefings on Thursday about progress toward fixing problems with the Healthcare.gov website. [Original story moved at 8:56 a.m. ET] Before it even launched, red flags went up about the Obamacare website. Health insurance companies complained about it, and the site crashed during a test run. But nobody told the President of any of it, the nation's health chief told CNN.
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HHS secretary's comments "surprising," Senate GOP leadership aide tells CNN
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Delaying the website's launch was "not really an option," the nation's health chief says
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She says an "A-Team" of experts is coming in, 3 weeks after the website's launch
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Warren Buffett: "It's a huge screw-up, but it will get worked out"
They said that the website's woes show that the Obama administration and the federal government generally aren't capable of executing what the @placeholder says was an ill-advised program from the get-go.