Posted on 11/19/2015 8:55:26 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said Thursday that he is not satisfied with a new letter from the Obama administration about ObamaCare co-ops, and is continuing to block the confirmation of health-related nominees.
The Nebraska senator has vowed to block confirmation of all nominees to the Department of Health and Human Services until he gets the answers he wants about the failure of ObamaCare’s co-op health plans.
Twelve of the 23 co-ops — nonprofit health insurers set up under ObamaCare and meant to compete with established companies — have failed because of financial problems.
Sasse has written a series of letters dating back to May asking HHS to provide him with documents and answers about a range of questions related to the taxpayer-funded loans given to the co-ops and the administration’s oversight of their finances.
“HHS has not yet answered the most important question: why did it give $1.2 billion to 12 failed CO-OPs?†Sasse said. “We know that HHS relied upon so-called ‘milestone’ or ‘performance’ reviews to give out loans, but that information has not seen the light of day. Until HHS produces a full accounting, which must include these milestone reviews, they remain non-responsive to the core of our request.â€
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Talk to the turtle, he’s the one funding it.
I doubt he’ll ever get what he wants. They only have to stall a year. IMO ACA has been the success at screwing the economy it was intended, so they will just ride it out.
Some believe it was to be his legacy, but his legacy has always been the destruction of this country, and he has almost succeeded.
ObamaCare might be ‘wildly popular’ among the illegal alien Xenos and the usual freeloaders but it still is a mega disaster. It has ruined the greatest medical system in the world.
All form, no substance. The long gone Orange Man Bonehead Boehner and his protege, Lyin’ Ryan had the opportunity to defund this. With the majority in the House of Representatives, they could have stopped funding for this cold. They refused. Now Lyin’ Ryan is up to the same crap. Liars and bastards, all of them.
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