Posted on 05/11/2013 9:34:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama's health secretary seeks donations from companies for healthcare law Photo 12:14pm EDT
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking companies for financial donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, months before it is due to take effect.
In telephone calls that began around March 23, officials say, Obama's top healthcare adviser has been seeking assistance from companies in the healthcare field and other industries as well as from healthcare providers, patient advocacy groups, churches and other charitable organizations.
"The secretary has been working with a full range of stakeholders ... We have always worked with outside groups, and the efforts now ramping up are just one more part of that work," said Jason Young, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS declined to identify the targeted donors but said none of the companies are regulated by department agencies.
The administration's aim is to win financial help for nonprofit groups, including Washington-based Enroll America, which are mounting a private-sector effort to persuade millions of uninsured Americans to obtain health coverage in 2014 through new online marketplaces, known as exchanges, slated to begin enrollment for federally subsidized private insurance on October 1.
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Get it from the Bozos down at the OMB. Those are the lying bass turds who told us ObamaCare was going to save us money.
Sounds like Al Capone selling protection.
Capone would have done it with a little more class! LOL.
Here Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, pass over your coffee pot and I’ll void my bladder for you.
The upper limit of chutzpah has been redefined.
Actually, this is the very definition of FASCISM.
-Benito Mussolini-
Capone wanted everyone to be safe - - that small groups rewarded him for his kindness is an aside... At least that's how our MSM would report it if they were back in the 30's...
In other words, the petty tyrants in our White House have almost everything in place to compel people to buy unwanted products and services, but only if the companies that will benefit from this shockingly immoral law will give the White House the money to get the program started. I know how our Founding Fathers would have reacted to that proposal. Fascism - a merger of government and business, using force to serve the interests of both.
This a F’n Laugh!!! They want to tax the Sh!T out of medical device companies and then ask them for contributions to cut their own throats.
FUBO!
I’m guessing HCA will be the first to step up and get in bed again.
Agree they are a sorry greedy lot.
Stakeholders? Is this a shakedown by the Thugs?
DeathCare is the next Holocaust. If you’re over 65, bend over!!! Beware of boxards and wooden soap.
I would chip in and buy her a tin cup for her to solicit money to support her habit.
Chutzpah? Drek doesn’t even cover it!
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