Trinnity
07-11-2012, 05:18 PM
Auditors: Obama administration is bending health law
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/11/auditors-say-obama-admin-bending-health-law/)
Congress (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/)’s non-partisan investigators said Wednesday President Obama is stretching the law to give bonuses to mediocre private Medicare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/medicare/) plans — an $8 billion program the auditors had already urged the administration to cancel. In a pointed letter, the Government Accountability Office (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/government-accountability-office/)’s chief lawyer said the administration hasn’t shown that it can learn anything by a “demonstration” project to pay bonuses to average-performing Medicare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/medicare/) Advantage plans.
The lawyer questioned “the agency’s legal authority to undertake the demonstration.” Opponents have said the $8 billion project amounts to a slush fund designed to cover up the Medicare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/medicare/) cuts in Mr. Obama’s health care law, at least until 2014 when the law kicks into full effect. The administration counters that it’s trying to learn what kinds of incentives can spur private companies to offer better coverage.
The Government Accountability Office (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/government-accountability-office/), Congress (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/)’s independent auditors, said that’s a stretch, since the demonstration seems designed to produce little useful data and could even reduce incentives for private plans to provide better care.
Does anyone doubt this will cost us an arm and a leg? There's no end to it.
It will bankrupt us all.
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/11/auditors-say-obama-admin-bending-health-law/)
Congress (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/)’s non-partisan investigators said Wednesday President Obama is stretching the law to give bonuses to mediocre private Medicare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/medicare/) plans — an $8 billion program the auditors had already urged the administration to cancel. In a pointed letter, the Government Accountability Office (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/government-accountability-office/)’s chief lawyer said the administration hasn’t shown that it can learn anything by a “demonstration” project to pay bonuses to average-performing Medicare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/medicare/) Advantage plans.
The lawyer questioned “the agency’s legal authority to undertake the demonstration.” Opponents have said the $8 billion project amounts to a slush fund designed to cover up the Medicare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/medicare/) cuts in Mr. Obama’s health care law, at least until 2014 when the law kicks into full effect. The administration counters that it’s trying to learn what kinds of incentives can spur private companies to offer better coverage.
The Government Accountability Office (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/government-accountability-office/), Congress (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/)’s independent auditors, said that’s a stretch, since the demonstration seems designed to produce little useful data and could even reduce incentives for private plans to provide better care.
Does anyone doubt this will cost us an arm and a leg? There's no end to it.
It will bankrupt us all.