Posted on 04/08/2011 5:43:49 PM PDT by Nachum
While the possible government shutdown means most federal employees, from the National Park Service workers to those handling your tax returns at the IRS, won't be coming into work, some bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are going to keep punching the clock. At the department's website, HHS has posted its shutdown contingency plan for its employees. Here's the relevant part for the department's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight:
Operations of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight could continue as funding was provided through the Affordable Care Act. This includes insurance rate reviews, assessment of a portion of insurance premiums that are used on medical services, establishment of exchanges, operation of the pre-existing condition insurance program and the early retiree reinsurance program.
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Our best option at this point is to Triple Planned Parenthood funding. It will save Trillions in the long run. It may be the best “investment” the government can make.
Priority is getting those Death Panels up and running.
There. I fixed it.
I hear ya, and you’re so right.
No doubt. The logic is impeccable absent any morals.
bttt
Are they going to shut down the IRS website at midnight—but still demand the tax forms be filed on time?
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