AP Exclusive: Calif. exchange granted secrecy

UT Sand Diego ^ | 5/9/13 | y MICHAEL R. BLOOD,AP

[Nachum]

LOS ANGELES — A California law that created an agency to oversee national health care reforms granted it broad authority to conceal spending on the contractors that will perform most of its functions, potentially shielding the public from seeing how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent.

The degree of secrecy afforded Covered California appears unique among states attempting to establish their own health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's signature health law.

An Associated Press review of the 16 other states that have opted for state-run marketplaces shows the California agency was given powers that are the most restrictive in what information is required to be made public.

[Nachum]

It just gets better and better

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[Standing Wolf]

What kind of spending could the People’s Republic of California want to hide from public view?

[Jim Robinson]

Outrageous!! Run the bastards out on a rail!!

[Diogenesis]

Well, at least all Moslems and relatives of Congress
are free of this monstrosity that will murder everyone
else, suffering in pain from their cancers and,
otherwise treatable, illnesses.

[BenLurkin]

The ‘Rats don’t want any light shined on the cockroaches.

[beelzepug]

California has no money, anyway. Moot point, no?

[Nachum]

What kind of spending could the People’s Republic of California want to hide from public view?

Oh, I can't imagine. It's a mystery.

[Nachum]

California has no money, anyway. Moot point, no?

There is some money, hidden from the public. They don't want us to find out. :)

Anyway, I suspect that they want secrecy because they want to decide who they can really screw with this nice big fat legislation.

[null and void]

Most. Transparent. Ever!

[Pollster1]

I guess "pass the bill to find out what's in the bill" isn't going to work out. They still don't want us to know what's in the bill as implemented in California. I don't think "who is John Galt?" is the question any more. We may be moving closer to "what is Soylent Green" than we want to know, but at least that strategy will "Control Health Care Costs" as promised.

[drypowder]

Jesse James Brown and John Dillenger Steinberg, Kalifornia hasn't got a chance! THEY'LL TAKE OUR MONEY AND FORCEABLY IF NECESSARY AND WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT THEY DO WITH IT?? LAND OF FREE???? Hardly!!

[TurboZamboni]

most of it.

it’s what communists do.

[Starboard]

The sheeple of California have made their bed; now they have to lie in it.

[Lurker]

I’ll have a rail shipped to the FR P.O. Box. You’re on your own for the tar and feathers.

[bert]

There is nothing wrong with California that could not be solved by a 9’6 earth quake in San francisco or two 8.3 earth qukes in San Francisco and LA