Posted on 02/23/2009 9:32:14 AM PST by cc2k
$15 billion of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be available in just two days, the President announced this morning, just a week after the act was signed into law.
"By the time most of you get home; money will be waiting to help 20 million vulnerable Americans in your states keep their health care coverage," he told a gathering of the nation's governors in the State Dining Room of the White House. "Children with asthma will be able to breathe easier, seniors won't need to fear losing their doctors, and pregnant women with limited means won't have to worry about the health of their babies."
But as with all the money in the ARRA, it's "not a blank check," the President said. (Learn more about the grant-making process.) He hammered it home by announcing that he's tasked Vice President Biden to oversee the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and that he's named Earl Devaney to keep an eye on every dollar as head of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board.
A former Secret Service agent, Devaney has worked since 1999 as the Inspector General of the Interior Department, where he exposed the Abramoff scandals and a deep culture of corruption among Bush officials and appointees.
"For nearly a decade as Inspector General at the Interior Department, Earl has doggedly pursued waste, fraud and mismanagement," the President said, "and Joe and I can't think of a more tenacious and efficient guardian of the hard-earned tax dollars the American people have entrusted us to wisely invest.
"He looks like an inspector," he added. "He's tough."
The appointment of Devaney follows on a tough memo from OMB director Peter Orszag to the heads of federal departments and agencies, explaining the high standards that are expected of them in reporting use of ARRA funds.
By the way, I recommend that everyone contact their Governor, and their state legislators about this. It would be good to let them know they should refuse any funds that come with unfunded mandates that will cause state taxes to rise after 2 years. The welfare and unemployment extensions in the Spendulus package are funded by the Feds for two years, but to get the funds, the states have to permanently change the eligibility requirements. So, after the two years, the states are still on the hook for more money, but the Feds aren't paying (yet).
“Children with asthma will be able to breathe easier,”
This only after he has visited all asthmatics and laid his hands upon them.
a deep culture of corruption among Bush officials and appointees.
They can only say that because the epic proportions of the
culture of corruption in the Obama Regime hae not come to light yet.
Help is in the way.
SnakeDoc
Help is on the Way
I bet aRnoiD kissed him on the lips to thank him.
OMG- Bamster sounds like Ernest Angley
“He looks like an inspector....he’s tough”
Bamster is jiving and the press is dutifully reporting his verbal vomit from the WH
These people are soooooooo classy and mature.
They make the Chicken Men of Krankor look super-confident and dignified.
Where’s the help for ME, paying the high COBRA health insurance fees???
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Governors dinner, while standing beneath a painting of Abraham Lincoln, at the White House in Washington February 22, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES)
2harddrive wrote:I'm in that boat with you. I wrote a letter to our COBRA provider last week about this. I don't have a reply yet. According to the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," we only have to send 35% of whatever the bill is. The company collects the rest from the Feds.
Where’s the help for ME, paying the high COBRA health insurance fees???
It's in Part B of the Conference Report for H.R.1. Download that, go to page 396. The details are there.
From the bill, it sounds like you pay 35% of the bill that they send you, and they collect the rest from the Feds.SEC. 3001. PREMIUM ASSISTANCE FOR COBRA BENEFITS. (a) PREMIUM ASSISTANCE FOR COBRA CONTINU ATION COVERAGE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMI- LIES.- (1) PROVISION OF PREMIUM ASSISTANCE.- (A) REDUCTION OF PREMIUMS PAYABLE.- In the case of any premium for a period of coverage beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act for COBRA continuation coverage with respect to any assistance eligible individual, such individual shall be treated for purposes of any COBRA continuation provision as having paid the amount of such premium if such individual pays (or a person other than such individual's employer pays on behalf of such individual) 35 percent of the amount of such premium (as determined without regard to this subsection).
I'm not doing that until I have it in writing from our provider that it will work that way. But that's the intent in ARRA.
How long can pay the 35%?
Obama buys new quick drying ink for US mint.
$15 billion of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
will be available in just two days, the President announced this morning,
just a week after the act was signed into law.
"We have received the first shipment of the new fast-dry ink and the presses are running at 110%."
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