Thread: $3.8B Already Spent Setting Up Obamacare, Heading to Over $5B

posted 5 hours ago
$3.8B Already Spent Setting Up Obamacare, Heading to Over $5B

10
The administration has already spent $3.8 billion creating the system for Americans and business to buy Obamacare health insurance, and that figure is likely to top $5 billion when every participating state comes online, according to federal figures.

California has received the most so far, some $910 million in grants to be used to build the state’s “health insurance marketplace,” the so-called “exchanges” where citizens and businesses will be able to compare and choose their preferred coverage as soon as October.
The $3.8 billion already spent on grants to 51 states, territories and the District of Columbia is just to serve the estimated 21 million-40 million who don’t have health insurance. The majority of Americans already have insurance, typically through their workplace.
The president’s decision to delay forcing employers to participate for a year won’t impact funding for state health insurance exchanges.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided several types of grants for states to hire workers, buy equipment, and conduct surveys to determine how big a bureaucracy is needed to serve uninsured workers. The three key grants are “planning grants,” “Level 1 grants,” and “Level 2 grants.”
Post Continues on washingtonexaminer.com

http://bighealthreport.com/8943/3-8b...ng-to-over-5b/

posted 5 hours ago
Sen. Mike Lee Throws Down Gauntlet: Defund Obamacare or Face Government Shutdown


4
Senator Mike Lee issued a scathing condemnation of the Obama administration’s decision to suspend the employer mandate, while leaving the individual mandate in force.

The Constitutional Attorney slammed the Democrats for promoting the interests of Big Business, while discriminating against the ‘little guy.’ Mike Lee’s diatribe would surely make moderate Democrats’ heads spin if they saw it:

“It’s fundamentally unfair to adopt an employer mandate and an individual mandate and say, ‘I’m going to enforce this against hard-working individual Americans, but the government is going to look the other way when it comes to wealthy, corporate fat cats”…
“If congressional Democrats want to oppose appropriations bills without additional ObamaCare funding, shut down the government, and side with the president and Big Business against the American people, then it’s their choice. But three years in, even the president himself has now admitted that ObamaCare won’t work. The only responsible choice now is to protect the country from ObamaCare’s looming disaster, start over and finally begin work on real health care reform.”

Post Continues on www.ijreview.com

http://bighealthreport.com/8953/sen-...ment-shutdown/



Hey Mike Lee stick it in your ear!! In fact why don't you just quit, I am tired of your threats, every time they want something or don't want something it's always threats, and intimidation's...say no to obamacare and end it!!