"Smooches!"
Posted on 06/04/2013 1:14:47 PM PDT by servo1969
WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, disclosed on Tuesday that she had made telephone calls to three companies regulated by her department and urged them to help a nonprofit group promote President Obama’s health care law.
She identified the companies as Johnson & Johnson, the drug maker; Ascension Health, a large Roman Catholic health care system; and Kaiser Permanente, the health insurance plan.
At a Congressional hearing, Ms. Sebelius said she had not explicitly asked the companies for money, but urged them to support the work of the nonprofit group, Enroll America.
The group, led by former Obama administration officials, is working with the White House to publicize the 2010 health care law and help uninsured people sign up for coverage.
Republicans in Congress have raised questions about the legality and propriety of Ms. Sebelius’s efforts, saying she was trying to circumvent limits on spending set by Congress.
However, Ms. Sebelius said she was following well-established precedents. For example, she said, the Clinton administration established “public-private partnerships'’ to encourage enrollment in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the administration of President George W. Bush worked with pharmaceutical companies and insurers to help Medicare beneficiaries sign up for prescription drug coverage.
Obama administration officials had previously said that Ms. Sebelius solicited donations from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and H&R Block, the tax preparation service. She confirmed on Tuesday that she had urged them to “consider making contributions'’ to Enroll America, which she described as “a private nonprofit nonpartisan organization.'’
Administration officials say the health care law needs private support because Congress has provided less money than Mr. Obama requested for a public education and outreach campaign.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with a feral government official using fear of the feral government to get people to do things for you.
The NYT, supposed masters of the English language.
What is their definition of the word, “asked”.
The Death Queen.
KEEP GOING!!! This is ALL going to come crashing down.
Telling the Truth Slowly to the Slimes because someone else was about to run with this story.
It works like this.
Tony Soprana calls and asks if you want to make a donation.
He then says his Friend Pauly Walnuts down at IRS is a nice guy.
More like Kathleen Sebelius ask the companies for “support”, then tells them she knows folks at the IRS & FDA.
Other than the fact that this is simply illegal, what’s the big deal?
Mark
comrad stops ad door, draws curtain closed, flips “open” sign over, peeks out periodicaly:
“Nice place ya got here...”
“....”
“DA MAN IS TALKIN TO YA’S...!”
“Um.....thank you...”
Eyes flicker around the restaurant, setting on yours in a menacing stare:
“Wouldn’t want anything to happen to it, ya know? It being NICE and all...”
“.....”
“How long ya figger it would take for dis here place to BURN DOWN...?”
Pushes pen into your chest.
“I think you should buy INSURANCE....I think you should think REAL HARD ‘bout dat, capiche...?”
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