Convinced that someone in the Obama administration should be held accountable for wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on the rollout of the Obamacare website, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) today signed a letter along with many of his House colleagues calling on President Obama to seek the resignation of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

 “The American people are demanding that someone be held accountable for this debacle and, if it’s not going to be the president himself, then it should be Secretary Sebelius who heads up the department responsible for creating the federal exchange,” Luetkemeyer said. “She was warned repeatedly by third-party entities that the system’s technology was not ready and not adequately safeguarded or tested. This is one more reason why I have called for a repeal of the law or at least a one-year delay of Obamacare’s implementation and taxes to prevent this chaos. Taxpayers should not have to tolerate this kind of waste and incompetence from Washington. It’s not just the millions spent on the Obamacare website that experts say is plagued by far more than just glitches, but it’s the billions that have been and will continue to be spent on the unworkable Obamacare health system that is trying to sell plans that have expensive premiums and limited networks of care.”

Recent reports estimate that HHS has spent more than $400 million on the HealthCare.gov system. To put this into perspective, Facebook operated for six years before surpassing the $500 million mark. Analyses by information technology system experts have indicated the problem is not due to high traffic, but to structural design problems and poor coding.

Other reports have revealed that the site had not been adequately tested by independent third-parties, either for data security or for handling the necessary load of requests. It’s been reported that a major part of the problem stems from an internal HHS decision to prevent people from simply browsing health policies and prices until they first created an account and entered crucial data that would determine their eligibility for subsidies.