Posted on 07/26/2013 11:37:37 AM PDT by drewh
Documents obtained from the Health and Human Services Department through a Freedom of Information Act request show that on the day the Affordable Care Act became law, the agency received fast-track authority to hire 1,814 new high-level employees to put Obamacare into practice, at a likely cost of more than $159 million per year.
The hiring request was approved by the Obama administration's Office of Personnel Management despite a government-wide hiring freeze.
Judicial Watch, a nonprofit that has told MailOnline it files 'hundreds' of such FOIA requests, showed MailOnline the documents on Thursday. They show that HHS designated the hiring as a project worthy of 'direct-hire appointing authority,' a mechanism designed to sidestep normal restrictions on how much federal agencies can spend on personnel. An analysis by MailOnline indicates that the annual base pay for those 1,814 employees, many of them slated for hiring at the highest salary levels available, would exceed $127.7 million
So-called 'differential' payments, given to all federal employees in order to adjust for regional cost-of-living differences, would have added an average of 24.6 per cent to each employee's paycheck, bring the annual cost to $159 million. 'Even as the ill-conceived Obamacare law continues to crumble, we are learning more and more about its massive cost to the American people and the shady politics attendant to its passage and implementation, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. 'Our Freedom of Information Act investigation is ongoing.'
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Wait until you see what they hire.
And that’s just for their boondoggles and conventions.
That’s a rounding error on what it will actually cost...
It feels like bizarro world. only the UK Press will report what’s actually going on...
Oh look they made a little mistake , they said “Million “ when it should be “ Billion “
It will be billion after the convention gifts and music videos are finished...
Conventions ,under the Obama Administration it’s Reeducation Camp
How much is it REALLY when you add in lifetime pensions?
You beat me to it.
Ha!
Can you imagine the ATTITUDE that is waiting for you when you get sick?
Those will be the Acorn/Navigators
Those will be the Acorn/Navigators
Paid for by the tax payer ,but working for the Democrats
Employment hope for Rachel Jeantel and her people.
bump
And SEIU members.
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