In the private sector you get fired, in the government sector you retire with a full pension.
Via Politico:
The official in charge of developing the Affordable Care Act’s website is retiring from federal service on Tuesday.
Michelle Snyder, the chief operating officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had intended to leave last year after four decades in public service but stayed on to “help me with the challenges facing CMS in 2013,” the agency’s chief, Marilyn Tavenner, wrote in an email to staff on Monday.
Snyder’s departure was first reported by The New York Times.
While Snyder isn’t the first high-ranking CMS official to head for the exit since the botched rollout of the Obamacare website on Oct. 1 — Chief Information Officer Tony Trenkle left in November — she became the subject of finger-pointing during oversight hearings on Capitol Hill this fall.
“Michelle Snyder is the one responsible for this debacle,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) charged in an exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in late October, after pushing Sebelius to name the official who ran the website development effort.