Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by technical problems with the government's new health care website, was briefed earlier this year on a consultant's report that warned of possible widespread site failures, the White House said.
There have been weeks of questions about whether Obama understood the depth of the site's problems and let it open anyway, or simply "did not have enough awareness" of them, as the president stated at a November 14 news conference.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president had been briefed in the spring.
But he said the president's familiarity with the report and recommendations did not contradict previous statements from the White House that described Obama as surprised.
Obama's approval rating dipped to a low of 37 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/20/us-usa-healthcare-idUSBRE9AI18920131120?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71&google_editors_picks=true
There have been weeks of questions about whether Obama understood the depth of the site's problems and let it open anyway, or simply "did not have enough awareness" of them, as the president stated at a November 14 news conference.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president had been briefed in the spring.
But he said the president's familiarity with the report and recommendations did not contradict previous statements from the White House that described Obama as surprised.
Obama's approval rating dipped to a low of 37 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/20/us-usa-healthcare-idUSBRE9AI18920131120?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71&google_editors_picks=true