Posted on 11/11/2015 4:00:33 AM PST by rootin tootin
Last April, the HHS Office of Inspector General issued an alert concerning the misuse of Obamacare start-up grants by certain states. Congress yawned. Later, the Obama administration illegally rewrote the law’s limitations on how these funds could be spent. Our elected representatives remained inert. In August, a few Senators bestirred themselves enough to write to the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) concerning how he planned to recoup grants from failed exchanges. The House still snored. Even after state skullduggery involving the grants was reported in this space on September 14, and subsequently by other publications, the House slumbered.
That body received its wake-up call from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO released a report showing that 16 states (all but one secure Democrat strongholds) and the District of Columbia were awarded $4.6 billion in grants to create Obamacare exchanges which cannot account for the vast gulf that exists between the amounts spent on their “marketplaces†and the grant money awarded. Of the $4.6 billion, only about $1.4 billion can be confidently reconciled with specific expenditures. This leaves a gap of $3.2 billion. It gets worse. These 17 exchanges are so far behind in their bookkeeping that every figure reported to the GAO is accompanied by a catalog of caveats.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Like Dems in New Orleans spent money sent to fix the levis and then cried it’s Bush’s fault when Katrina pushed the levy down, the Dems will blame the next Republicans for the failure of the exchanges due to lack of funds, which of course the Dems spent on themselves and their supporters.
In 2018 it’s all going to be considered the FAULT of the next Republican president.
I’ve already been seeing ‘libertarians’ and Democrats on socialist media sites like Facebook blaming Republicans for not doing something to FIX Obamacare and that they should’ve been working to make it better in the first place.
Can’t fix stupid. Democrats passed this thing entirely on their own and it’s a huge tax. Sharing the blame isn’t honest.
Obama was blaming Texas for not creating an exchange. Liberal states have since closed their exchanges. I guess that’s Texas’ fault too.
...16 states and the District of Columbia were awarded $4.6 billion in grants to create Obamacare exchanges...
California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
bttt
Elections are approaching and the GOP needs issues to glom on to.
They’ll act outraged and swear that we need them to address and fix the problems. They’ll go wild with email blasts, Facebook postings and TV appearances, whipping voters into a frenzy over how dire the situation is and how urgently the GOP is needed to end the abuses.
Then, after the elections are over, back to business as usual.
"Jonathan Gruber is trying to blame the increasing the cost of health care on new drugs to treat hepatitis, instead of ObamaCare.
You Remember Gruber - one of ObamaCare’s chief architects? He helped draft ObamaCare while being paid nearly $400,000 by the Department of Health and Human Services. He is also the guy who admitted the Obama administration’s successful passage of the law was due to the "stupidity of the American voter."
In 2009, Gruber knew that ObamaCare would lead to increases in the cost of health care. At the time, Gruber even admitted that the only way to control costs is to effectively deny treatment. Nevertheless, he continued to claim the law would lead to lower premiums.................."
With progressives, all’s well that ends in the confiscation of tons of other people’s money, eh? Too bad some of those progressives wear an ‘R’ on their hat, and we’re not talking Rainier beer, folks. But, hopefully Ryan will shine some light on the mess.
Oops! Someone dipping into the trough again! Odd how that happens, isn’t it?
But we need to discuss more serious matters, like how to expand government so it can take in more money.
Follow the money...
Georgia refused to set up a state exchange...
Runaway inflation in the price of buying votes.
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