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The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown blamed the Obama administration’s lack of understanding of the health-care law itself for its inability to address the problems facing Healthcare.gov a month out from its launch.

“It’s covered in these barnacles,” Brown said on Morning Joe on Monday. “This thing is like a big, encrusted ball of mess.”

“In the end, everything was just done in this completely sort of screwed-up way,” she added.