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Another Scandal? HHS Secretary Begs Healthcare Execs To Help Fund ObamaCare

Posted on 15 May, 2013 by Amy



By Michael Miller



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=HOa3edw5ns8

ObamaCare.

From The Washington Post: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gone, hat in hand, to health industry officials, asking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama’s landmark health-care law, two people familiar with the outreach said.

Over the past three months, Sebelius has made multiple phone calls to health industry executives, community organizations and church groups and asked that they contribute whatever they can to nonprofit groups that are working to enroll uninsured Americans and increase awareness of the law, according to an HHS official and an industry person familiar with the secretary’s activities. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk openly about private discussions.

Republicans charge that Sebelius’s outreach was improper because it pressured private companies and other groups to support the Affordable Care Act. The latest controversy has emerged as the law faces a string of challenges from GOP lawmakers in Washington and skepticism from many state officials across the country.

“To solicit funds from health-care executives to help pay for the implementation of the President’s $2.6 trillion health spending law is absurd,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) said in a statement. “I will be seeking more information from the Administration about these actions to help better understand whether there are conflicts of interest and if it violated federal law.”

While Cabinet members may solicit donations as private citizens, federal law prohibits them from fundraising in their official capacity. So, which was it? (Choose: “B.”)

Regardless, this is yet another example of this administration’s willingness to push the envelope and do whatever it feels its must do to accomplish its objectives. Stay tuned.

Read more at http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/52561-another-scandal-hhs-secretary-begs-healthcare-execs-to-fund-obamacare/


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http://www.alipac.us/f9/another-obam...ig-irs-278773/

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