Posted on 12/09/2014 12:21:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Naw. Gruber will have “a car wreck” and the world will move on.
Today's hearings will be an entertaining spectacle and no more.
The people who repeatedly voted to fund Obamacare will use this as pressure relief and nothing more. At the end of the day, Gruber still has his cash, Obamacare still exists and the GOP will chuckle knowing Gruber was right as idiots rush to reelect more of them in 16 expecting them to be in opposition to Democrats.
Will Trey Gowdy be there I wonder?
Anyone know what channel will be carrying the circus? Thanks!
I think it is an error to conduct them without getting all the information they need, for sure. To date, only his comments made in several venues and the multiple visits to the White House are topics of discussion.
I’d prefer they take some time and investigate all the multiple contracts he received over the last six years. How they were bid, what was the pricing structure, was effort on simultaneous contracts bid as full-time-equivalent, etc. The WH can give out contracts however they want (e.g., sole source), but the contract eventually has to go through some sort of award audit where all these things are reviewed and approved as legitimate.
1. To insure the uninsured, we first uninsure the insured.
2. Next, the newly uninsured get re-insured.
3. To re-insure the newly uninsured, we slap them w/ extra charges.
4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became uninsured, and then re-insured, can now be insured (which we will provide free of charge).
This, then, is Marxist-style "redistribution of wealth"...... brought to you by lock-stepping Democrats' historic party line vote.
HHS “Started” Individual Obamacare Applications Prior To Deadline; Obtained Personal Info From States
Shark Tank / FR Posted on Friday, April 04, 2014 by M. Thatcher
In the closing days of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the US Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that the govt agency had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf.
The HHS letter stated that the information they used to begin the application for individual Healthcare was obtain by the state agency in charge of implementing Obamacare.
The next step for the individual would be to visit the web site Healthcare.gov and complete the already started application to see if they qualify for “Marketplace coverage.”
News of the HHS letter was first mentioned by a listener of the popular “Daybreak with Drew Steele” Show on Fox 92.5, which is out of Fort Myers, Florida.(Excerpt)
Read more at: http://www.shark-tank.com/2014/04/04/hhs-started-individual-obamaca ...
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NEED TO KNOW:
(1) which states participated in giving confidential information to HHS, and,
(2) how would state agencies know which of their citizens would want or need a new Obamacare-compliant policy.......without violating that individual's privacy--and without consulting the individual?
(3) for an application to be legally enforced, the individual would have had to sign it.
(4) Who signed the app? (Forgery must be considered.)
(5) When a third party commits you to a financial transaction, that person is considered your fiduciary.... and CANNOT act WRT a payment method or other financial burden that conflicts with your best interests.
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Michigan legislators will request that relevant state agencies investigate the state’s deal with Gruber......they want to know (1) how Gruber was selected, and, (2) what services he provided for the money.
The states' selection process is crucial----(1) to scrutinize the credentials Gruber presented to states, (2) his monetary requirements, and, (3) what he based his expertise on.
“Mr. Gruber appears to be a very devious man – perhaps with a proclivity for fraud,” Michigan state Rep. McMillin said in an email.
Obama is downplaying Gruber's role, claiming he had no part in passing O/care. But if Gruber was NOT the Obamacare architect---then Gruber took money from states under false pretenses and should be prosecuted for govt fraud.
All expenditures of federal funds must be fully delineated in the Federal Register and/or Congressional Review.
Taxpayers should ask their congressmen to supply them w/ copies of these public documents.
I realize that there is a fixed cost for the “program model” he uses and likely some sort of licensing fee. However, some of these contracts have “consulting” components which usually involve estimates of time needed.
I find it difficult to believe he can have that much available time. There are only about 1900-2000 work hours per year in normal situations. If you couple that with the amount of time he has to spend as an MIT professor doing something, where did he have the time to apply to all these contracts?
Excellent deconstruction-—should be considered by all of the committee.
Another big show of Outrage! Another big nothing as far as anything changing.
The description of a congressional hearing beforehand as a ‘circus’ should raise questions about the seriousness of a journal whose very mission is to cover congressional activities. The description may turn out to be true, but it speaks to a genuine lack of professionalism on the part of this publication.
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