Posted on 11/29/2011 9:45:53 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Obama administration has awarded Iowa more than $7.7 million to begin setting up a health insurance exchange, a central element of the controversial federal health-care reform law.
The grant comes even as Iowa is one of the states challenging the law’s constitutionality.
Obama administration officials said Tuesday that Iowa is one of 13 states that have been awarded a total of $220 million.
The administration said the state will use the funds for a “financial assessment and budget analysis to determine the financial resources required to provide assistance to individuals and small businesses, coverage appeals and complaints.”
It also will use the money to conduct focus groups and stakeholder outreach regarding program development.
“Around the country, states are getting to work,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on a conference call with reporters Tuesday.
She said more than half the states have made “significant progress” toward creating the exchanges.
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Damn! Those cornballs in Iowa went cheap. Only 7.7 million to sell their souls to Barry and his BIG government communists. That 7.7 million will be gone in no time.
Re the explanations given for the use of this bribery money, in other words, “TOGA PARTY”!
If free healthcare were that cheap, even Iowans could afford it.
Whores.
Is there a list of the 13 states?
I suspect all of them are states that Obama must win in order to have a chance of being re-elected in 2012.
Several states that are challenging the law’s constitutionality received grants.
Tim Albrecht, a spokesman for the governor, said Tuesday that Branstad thinks “that the government takeover of health care is unworkable and unaffordable for states” and that the lawsuit will be successful.
My arithmetic puts the number at a little less than $2.60 a person. What or who does that buy?
The administration said the state will use the funds for a “financial assessment and budget analysis to determine the financial resources required to provide assistance to individuals and small businesses, coverage appeals and complaints.”
It also will use the money to conduct focus groups and stakeholder outreach regarding
Hmmmmm
You might be on to something there....
Once you figure the director of the health insurance exchange, his personal staff, the staff car, the laptops, the travel budget to insurance conferences...that takes up around a million. Then you add the support staff and functionally necessities, plus the rent for the building....and you are up to half of the $7.7 million. So $3 million really won’t pay for that much.
It’s the same way for towns that start up diversity sections in city hall (Charlottsville, VA for example). That serves as a money pit for special folks as well.
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