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  • HHS Department Sought Estimated $159 MILLION Per Year on New Employees to Run Obamacare

    07/26/2013 11:37:37 AM PDT · by drewh · 15 replies
    Dail Mail UK ^ | 18:10 EST, 25 July 2013 | By David Martosko In Washington
    Documents obtained from the Health and Human Services Department through a Freedom of Information Act request show that on the day the Affordable Care Act became law, the agency received fast-track authority to hire 1,814 new high-level employees to put Obamacare into practice, at a likely cost of more than $159 million per year. The hiring request was approved by the Obama administration's Office of Personnel Management despite a government-wide hiring freeze. Judicial Watch, a nonprofit that has told MailOnline it files 'hundreds' of such FOIA requests, showed MailOnline the documents on Thursday. They show that HHS designated the hiring...