Yet more evidence of the fundamental dishonesty of this entire administration. According to AmSpec blog, the recent unfavorable cost analysis performed by Medicare’s Office of the Actuary was sent to the Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, more than a week before the House vote on Obamacare:
[The report] had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius’s staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.
And it went to the White House as well:
‘We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff,’ says the HHS staffer, ‘and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary’s office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report.’
So, the White House, the Secretary of HHS and the Democrats who run Congress not only pressured the CBO into producing cost estimates that didn’t pass the laugh test, they also covered up a legitimate and much less rosy report from the Medicare actuary. Meanwhile, they were lying through their teeth about Obamacare “reducing the deficit.”
UPDATE:
Well, I guess the WH got on the phone with Michael Foster (the actuary) and told him to fix this PRONTO. He has issued a denial to all the media outlets he can get on the telephone. I imagine he’s lying his butt off to save his job.
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