...The Obama administration’s congressional allies
botched the drafting of this aspect of the health care overhaul, as the
plain language of Obamacare doesn’t empower federal exchanges to
distribute taxpayer-funded subsidies to individuals; it empowers only
state-based exchanges to distribute the subsidies. (The administration
pretends otherwise.) Moreover, the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) is lagging behind in developing the federal exchanges.
"We don't NEEEEED your steeeeenkin' laws...."
You've heard of "crony capitalism," right? Read on for a bit of education on the topic!!
It gets worse. HHS has contracted with a subsidiary
of a private health care company to help build and police the very
exchanges in which that company will be competing for business. The
person who ran the government entity that awarded that contract has
since accepted a position with a different subsidiary of that same
company. An insurance industry insider (speaking on the condition of
anonymity) says that HHS, in an attempt to hide this unseemly contract
from public view until after the election, encouraged the company to
hide the transaction from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Which is OK, b/c SEC personnel are too busy watching porn on taxpayer dollars, anyway....
... and Guess Who is the company which purchased the prime contractor??
...QSSI, apparently realizing what a valuable asset it had in the contract,
started shopping itself around. Meanwhile, Larsen left the CCIIO [the Feds overseeing ObozoCare] and
took a highly paid position with Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth
Group, in June. Sometime this summer, UnitedHealth Group bought QSSI.
....therefore,....
...UnitedHealth Group, through QSSI, would be able to police the same field in which it would be a competitor.
HT: Hot Air
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