At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today confronted U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius over the failure of the Obamacare exchanges and again called on her to resign.

“People are angry. Millions of Americans are scared,” Roberts said. “They don’t know whether they are going to have coverage in a matter of weeks. They don’t know what that coverage will include. They now are getting letters from their insurance companies they don’t understand. In fact, more people are losing their insurance than are signing up on the website. And they are being directed to a website that doesn’t even work.

“We don’t often talk about life and death in the context it deserves, but at this time it is real, and it means the difference between life and death for many Americans who are at a loss for what to do. And we know, Madame Secretary, that fixing the website won’t ever fix the uncertainty and ramifications that result from this law.”

In early October, Roberts was the first member of Congress to call for Secretary Sebelius’ resignation after the failure of healthcare.gov and amid concerns about the security and privacy of personal health and financial information in the exchange.