Sebelius Says GAO Report Is ‘Just Not Accurate’

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Sebelius Says GAO Report Is ‘Just Not Accurate’ — Then Helps Confirm That It Is

4:17 PM, May 4, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

 

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, To the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and Gator Aid, President Obama has now added the Senior Swindle — a ploy to spend $8.35 billion in taxpayer money to hide the effects of Obamacare’s Medicare Advantage cuts until after the election. Under Obamacare, millions of seniors would lose their Medicare Advantage plans, as hundreds of billions of dollars that would have been spent on those plans would instead be spent on Obamacare. In fact, the Medicare chief actuary says that, within 5 years, Obamacare would cause the number of seniors on Medicare Advantage to be cut in half (in comparison to how things would have been without Obamacare — or how they would be if it’s repealed).

 

The Obama administration is claiming that this expenditure of $8.35 billion is legal because this money is being spent, the administration claims, on a legitimate “demonstration project” to help improve the implementation of current law. But, as a report recently released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) indicates, nothing about this “demonstration project” appears to have been designed to improve the implementation of current law. Rather, the project appears to have been designed to hide the effects of current law — by delaying the Medicare Advantage cuts — until after Obama’s reelection bid. By all appearances, this isn’t a demonstration project at all, but rather a reelection project financed at taxpayer expense. Read More

 

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