Posted on 01/21/2016 1:16:31 PM PST by Nachum
The head of the agency that oversees President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation suggested it should not be held responsible for the 12 Obamacare health insurance co-ops that closed their doors to customers last year, according to prepared testimony he is scheduled to deliver today before the Senate Finance Committee.
Andy Slavitt, acting administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), was not apologetic in his testimony and accepted no personal responsibility for the co-op failures in 15 states, according to an advance copy of his testimony obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The closures sent millions of Americans scrambling for new health insurance just in time for Christmas at the end of 2015.
Slavitt defended CMS’s oversight system for the co-op’s by citing a July 2013 Department of Health and Human Services inspector general’s report that approved CMS safeguards.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Woo hoo..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm-ihSFC280
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Another Capo for Communism?
This is one of many reasons why people are angry.
There seems to be no accountability in DC
You need to read more carefully and read between the lines...
Who do you think pressured (or demanded) ...citing a July 2013 Department of Health and Human Services inspector general's report that approved CMS safeguards.
We haven't heard from that "inspector" yet. I bet he/she/it has retired.
Think Lois Lerner...
There, FIXED!
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