Posted on 10/18/2015 4:25:03 AM PDT by SkyPilot
It’s an Obamacare story with every imaginable outrage — blatant conflicts of interest, millions of tax dollars going to political cronies, thousands of Americans left without health insurance, lavish pay for incompetent executives, federal funds diverted illegally, multiple congressional investigations, insider trading convictions and big decisions made behind closed doors.
Tragically, there is even a child abuser. But search the New York Times web site for “Obamacare co-ops” and nothing comes up. Just three entries appear for the same search on the Washington Post web site.
Not so, Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. Pollock has filed dozens of stories about the Obamacare co-ops since 23 of the tax-funded groups were created in 2011 at a cost of $2 billion. President Obama promised the co-ops would help lower medical costs by competing with profit-driven private companies.
Seven of the co-ops have closed. A recent report by the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General said the rest of the co-ops are in deep financial trouble and more are expected to close.
None of these dismal developments come as a surprise to those following Pollock’s byline for the past four years. Here are a dozen of his most significant co-op stories, some of which were reported when he worked for the Washington Examiner.
- One third of Obamacare co-ops have failed.
- New York’s Obamacare co-op drew the most consumer complaints.
- Feds admit more Obamacare co-op failures are coming.
- Obamacare co-op execs hid millions in lavish pay, consulting fees. - House panel says Obamacare co-op illegally diverted $25 million.
- ‘Luxurious’ funding lets Obamacare co-ops undercut commercial rivals.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
The people who voted for this psychopath, so that the could get "Free Healthcare", do not elicit much sympathy.
They put in power a man who is responsible for Christians in the Middle East being tortured, raped, mutilated, and murdered.
I really don't care if their "Co-Op" fails and they have to move along to the next scam where they can bilk the taxpayer again.
I tried to find a pic of his face during the segment of that interview where he looks particularly evil but alas it appears to have been blackwashed on the Internet...
Obamacare is the new solyndra, we knew it, the GOP knows it and so does the traitor chief justice roberts who knew it. He could have stopped it in its tracks but he would have been outed. They are compromised and we dont need people who are compromised!!!!! obamacare is another money laundering scam
Only difference I can see from the usual scams is that these are failing sooner. These boondoggles just need more taxpayer money. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
How true.
,,,, This president makes Al Capone look like an alter boy .
It doesn’t matter which group of elite central planners it is - the greater the scale they try to “plan” for and control us little folks, the greater disaster it is.
Until you hear and understand the word “subsidiarity”, and the people have the will to institute it, the central planning will continue, and the nation as a whole will decline.
Looked to me like he had a tension curtain rod inside
his head (where normal people have a brain) to hold his
jug ears way from his head.
I absolutely agree. That doesn't mean I don't have empathy for people and the burden of health care costs. It means that the ‘stick it to them’ crowd who voted to screw the medical system and who didn't care who else got hurt in the process do not now deserve sympathy because their choices have now boomeranged on them. Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle, and health care is going to be unstable and broken for decades here on out.
Excellent. That needs to be on a postcard sent by the millions. Statement #3 should especially hit hard.
Bump
Hey, I've got an idea - let's destroy the blood-sucking Kulaks middle classes who oppose it and throw trillions of tax dollars into "climate change" to fix it!
TAX-PAYING AMERICANS NEED TO GO THIS ROUTE to nail greedy govt officials, people like Barack Obama, the conman perpetrating this scam, Loretta Lynch labeling taxpayers "terrorists," Bill and Hillary Clinton imperiling taxpayers' ntl security, Lois Lerner and John Koskinen targeting taxpayers, all the criminal members of Congress, and other factotums on the govt payroll.
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BACKSTORY The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll” (and those in elective and appointive office). The GA Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.
(RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).
In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.
To bring a case under Georgia’s RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies — such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies).
RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.
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HERE'S THE PATHWAY TO LAUNCH---Texas took the lead w/ 26 state AG's, successfully arguing that Obama's beatified DACA/DAPA's were made more desirable employees than US citizens.
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Any public official using tax dollars to flout that law is a lawbreaker: in cases where govt officials on the public payroll not giving public notice is a violation at the federal level of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in the Federal Register. Laws demand that taxpayers have the opportunity to submit views in writing.
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NOTE If proof is established that RICO'ed criminal public officials impaired the commercial and economic activity of the region, that could also be prosecutable under the Hobbs Act.
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PRIME RICO TARGETS Boehner and his Congrssional buddies are complicit in the massive fraud, waste, and criminal use of tax dollars......and the flagrant abuse of taxpayers. They could have reeled in arrogant govt agencies conducting criminal activities (EPA, IRS, BLM, HUD, DOE and DOL). They could have defunded the criminal enterprise called "Obamacare" and the Planned Parenthood parasites living the high life w/ our tax-dollars....but to taxpayers' eternal disgust....they didn't.
Remember when you Obama voters called me a racist, sexist, homophobe Teabagger for opposing Obama?
**** you. :)
It would be great if all those who vote for LIBs/DIMs suffer. May they rot.
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