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Obamacare Official Gets Ethics Waiver as Former Company Faces Scrutiny

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Ethics Waiver, Health & Human Services, Healthcare.gov, Obama donor, Obamacare


BeFunky_screenshot andrew slavit optum qssi group executive president.jpg

The Daily Signal by Melissa Quinn

Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with saving HealthCare.gov and current second-in-command at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was granted an ethics waiver by the Department of Health and Human Services to begin working with his former company immediately.

The waiver was granted despite Republican lawmakers’ concerns about Slavitt’s potential conflict of interest. The Daily Signal revealed those concerns in a story yesterday.

Slavitt, a former OptumInsight/QSSI group vice president, left the company last month to work as the principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Obamacare and HealthCare.gov. His post makes him the No. 2 at the agency under CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner.

>>> Company That ‘Saved’ HealthCare.gov Faces Questions of Cronyism

The former Optum executive gave the maximum campaign contributions allowed to President Obama’s Victory Fund and Obama for America—now Organizing for Action—in 2012, federal campaign records show….

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Another Obama lie exposed: Sebelius Concedes that Premiums will rise again by 2015

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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Barack Obama, CMS, Health & Human Services, individual mandate, Kathleen Sebelius, Obamacare, premiums


Remember when Barack Obama assured Americans repeatedly that Obamacare would lower the healthcare premiums back to $2500 per family per year.

Well he, who plays golf, fiddles and hobnobs with Hollywood’s Communist elites while the nation burns lied about that too.

In the middle of a hearing yesterday with the House Ways and Means Committee, Health & Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius conceded that health insurance premiums in increase next year but suggested that might increase at a slower rate than they have thus far.

 Kathleen Sebelius 03122014

DailyMail.co.uk

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told House Ways and Means Committee members on Wednesday that she expects health insurance rates to increase as the Affordable Care Act takes full effect.

‘I think premiums are likely to go up,’ she conceded under questioning, ‘but go up at a slower pace’ than they have already under Obamacare.

President Obama famously promised in 2008 and 2009 that his health insurance overhaul plan would lower the cost of health care for an average family by $2,500 per year.

And as a March 31 deadline approaches, the date when Americans will face fines if they don’t have medical insurance, Sebelius told the panel that there will be ‘no delay’ in enforcing that so-called individual mandate.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokeswoman Julie Bataille said during a conference call on Tuesday that ‘we have no plans to extend the open enrollment period’ that began amid fits and starts on October 1.

‘In fact, we don’t actually have the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period in 2014,’ she said.

On Wednesday, Republican Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp asked Sebelius if she agreed.

‘I haven’t seen their statements,’ she replied, despite having been on the conference call, ‘but there is no delay beyond March 31….’ 

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In addition, Senator Dave Camp questioned Sebelius about the number of paid enrollees, previously insurance to which Sebelius could not or would not respond.  Camp further queried Sebelius about Harry Reid’s statement that everyone who claims to have experienced Obamacare horrors lied. No different from her responses last year, in each instant, Sebelius’ responded by dancing around the question.

“I think premiums are likely to go up, but go up at a smaller pace than what we’ve seen since 2010.”  Kathleen Sebelius.  Re-assuring isn’t it?

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Obama’s Edict to Augment the Welfare State by Upending Clinton’s Welfare Reform Laws

13 Friday Jul 2012

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Entitlements, Health & Human Services, HHS, obama, Obama doctrine, Serfdom, Slavery, TANF, Welfare State


Obama Guts Welfare Reform

…Today the Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).

Section 1115 states that “the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the requirements” of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, “mandatory work requirements”). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not waiveable.

In establishing TANF, Congress deliberately exempted or shielded nearly all of the TANF program from the section 1115 waiver authority. They did not want the law to be rewritten at the whim of Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats. Of the roughly 35 sections of the TANF law, only one is listed as waiveable under section 1115. This is section 402.

Section 402 describes state plans—reports that state governments must file to HHS describing the actions they will undertake to comply with the many requirements established in the other sections of the TANF law. The authority to waive section 402 provides the option to waive state reporting requirements only, not to overturn the core requirements of the TANF program contained in the other sections of the TANF law…

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While clearly there are the lazy, freeloading useful idiots who will celebrate this reversal in welfare reform much like the idiots who jumped for joy four years ago at the very thought of receiving government checks, said reversal is nothing to celebrate.

What we have here is Barack Obama fast tracking his clueless warp-minded supporters and the nation down the road to serfdom while currying their favor and their votes.

On the one hand, Obama has failed to realize that those he is playing up to are lazy, mindless and clueless. They will take the money and run yes, but the last thing that they will do is rise from their slumber to deliver a vote to Barack Obama on Election Day.

On the other hand, if the nation is so cursed with another four years of this dictator, Obama will turn on his slaves thereby forcing them to reap that which they have sewn.  After all, free money and freedom is just an illusion but shhhhhh.  Obama supporters have not figured that out yet.

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10 Sunday Jun 2012

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Health & Human Services, healthcare, Healthcare Reform, NHS, Obama doctrine, Obama's legacy, Obamacare, socialized medicine, universal healthcare


This is a great post.

I just emailed this post to my niece in Virginia who attempted to debate me on the merits of Obamacare just a few days ago.

HHS has placed posters throughout her neighborhood with an image of a young black woman making claims that Obamacare saved her life.

My niece was shocked when I informed her that the poster was government propaganda and even more so once I informed her that the virtues of Obamacare was based on deception.

As much as I love this young woman, I found her lack of comprehension when it comes to the deceptive tactics and rationale behind the Obama administration (HHS) dispatching such propaganda exasperating to say the least.

Informing her that she was being deceived may have been a little too much to handle but all I can do is try.


The Rio Norte Line

When I was in Panama City, my doctor suspected that I had developed sleep apnea. The NHS says:

Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep.

Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes. They often occur 5 to30 timesor more an hour. Typically, normal breathing then starts again, sometimes with a loud snort or choking sound.

Sleep apnea usually is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disrupts your sleep. You often move out of deep sleep and into light sleep when your breathing pauses or becomes shallow.

How long did it take to get sleep monitoring  in Panama City in the terrible, horrible, unworkable and broken American healthcare system?

Two days to get an appointment, 5 days to collect the equipment and get monitored. One week from initial diagnosis. Total.

I moved to…

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What more proof do we need? If elected, Mitt Romney, WILL NOT repeal Obamacare

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Election 2012, Health & Human Services, Healthcare Reform, Mitt Romney, obama, Obamacare, Progressive Establishment, Progressive Republican, Republican Party, RINO, Romneycare, Supreme Court Rulings


After all, Obamacare is Mitt Romney’s baby on steroids so what makes you think that he will repeal Obamacare, especially in light of Romney’s appointment to his presidential transition team, i.e., former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt.

Many refer to Leavitt as a profiteer of Obamacare and rightfully so.

I refer you to an article written on June 27, 2011 entitled, Health exchanges: A new gold mine:

Cheryl Smith and Brett Graham may live in Salt Lake City — but you’d be hard pressed to find them in Utah these days.

The pair lead the health exchange practice at the consulting firm Leavitt Partners and, ever since the health care reform law passed, they have been in hot demand.

Smith and Graham aren’t the only Leavitt Partners employees pulling extra hours. Staff at the firm has doubled over the past year, as has office space in the Salt Lake City headquarters. Leavitt has forged new partnerships across the industry and has even begun turning down some potential clients because of lack of capacity.

The secret to its success: the health reform law and the millions of dollars it invests in health exchanges, the new marketplaces that states must launch by 2014 or risk the federal government coming in and taking over the task.

More than $300 million in exchange grants has already flowed into the states since the Affordable Care Act passed. That number will grow exponentially in the coming months, as states move from the initial steps of passing exchange legislation to the more lucrative task of setting them up.

For health consultants and information technology vendors, it’s already shaping up to be a gold mine….

…‘There is a group that feels as though they don’t want to be associated with the Affordable Care Act,’ said Leavitt Partners CEO Michael Leavitt, who was Health and Human Services secretary under President George W. Bush. ‘Privately, though, it’s clear that several of those are planning behind the scenes, because they don’t want to have a federal exchange…

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In mid-May, the New Mexico Human Services Department awarded Leavitt Partners a $1 million contract to assist in the structuring of the state’s health insurance exchange.

…Leavitt Partners of Salt Lake City won the contract through a competitive bidding process and will assist the state with grant applications, technical work and overall development of New Mexico’s health insurance exchange, HSD said in a news release. The firm will also help the state apply for more federal insurance exchange grants and write bid specifications for the construction of the site, said HSD spokesman Matt Kennicott.

The federal Affordable Care Act requires states to set up insurance exchanges where low-income people and others can shop for health insurance. The law says the exchanges must be operational by Jan. 1, 2014….

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Leavitt Partners was founded in 2009 several months before the passage of Obamacare.

What does the Romney appointment represent?

Until now, I have intentionally avoided posting much on the subject of Mitt Romney in the hopes that he would eventually provide me with something positive of which I could post.

I can no longer remain silent.  The appointment of Mike Leavitt to lead Romney’s transition team represents business as usual, smacks of crony capitalism and betrayal pre-Romney entering the White House.

A review of the Leavitt Partners website reveals that partners of the firm are well connected DC operatives and players of the Progressive establishment with a vested interest in Obamacare.  That in itself should be of concern.

For example:

Rich McKeown — President and CEO of Leavitt Partners. An attorney by training, McKeown co-founded Leavitt Partners with Gov. Michael O. Leavitt and, in his previous role, served as the chief of staff of the Department of Health and Human Services, where he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the nation’s largest federal department and the department most central to the implementation of federal health reform.

David Merritt — A senior advisor at Leavitt Partners and former CEO of the Center for Health Transformation. He has served as a health care advisor to several presidential campaigns and is the editor of Paper Kills 2.0, the sequel to the award-winning book about health care, Paper Kills.

Andrew Croshaw — A partner at Leavitt Partners and a former senior executive advisor to then Secretary Michael O. Leavitt at Health and Human Services. A Harvard MBA graduate, Croshaw has private sector experience with Eli Lilly and Novartis, and is an expert on value-driven health care….

From Mitt Romney down, Obamacare is high stakes.  Hence, in spite of the spin, Americans can be sure of one thing in the event of a Romney win.  Mitt Romney will not repeal Obamacare.  He will dance around the issue, maybe even perform a dog and pony show but in the end, Obamacare will not be repealed under Romney’s watch.

The implementation of Obamacare is a treasure trove for Mike Leavitt, among others.  Furthermore, Leavitt’s firm has already assessed various scenarios surrounding the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare for their own self-enrichment.

If you still do not get it, just test it out over at Health Reform Bracketology and see for yourself.

Clearly, Mitt Romney does not get it.  Romney is only pretending to hear the calls for repeal when in fact such calls are falling upon deaf ears.

Suggested reading:  Michael Leavitt has profited from Obamacare. So what?

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Cardinal Raymond Burke Encourages Catholics to Sign Online Petition to Stop the Birth Control Mandate

07 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Government War on Individual Constitutional Rights, Govt Intervention, Govt Intervention Religion, Govt Regulation, Health & Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, obama, Obama Administration, Obama doctrine, Obama's legacy, Obamacare, Oppression, War on Christianity


Tonight I received the following email from Christian Newswire that I thought worth sharing.  While Cardinal Burke is urging Catholics to sign the petition, I do not believe that this is just about Catholics.  If the Obama administration succeeds in its oppression of Catholics, who is next?

This fight belongs to everyone who believes in freedom of religion.  Please feel free to share.  An attack by Marxists on one religion is an attack on all religions.

“SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, sent a written message of support to St. Gianna Physician’s Guild over the weekend encouraging Catholics to sign the organization’s online petition (www.StopTheBirthControlMandate.org) to protest the assault on religious liberty that is happening under ObamaCare.

The petition has steadily gained momentum since its launch last August seeing the number of signatures more than double since January 20th. This is after the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement confirming that the mandate would go into effect as scheduled on August 1, 2012. An extension of one year was given to Catholic institutions and other entities to comply. This mandate does not provide a conscience clause for institutions and others who believe contraception and sterilization are immoral.

Stop the Birth Control Mandate petition asks that the Obama Administration and Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, withdraw immediately all references to contraception and contraception counseling from the ‘Guidelines for Women’s Preventive Services’ under The Affordable Care Act. Moreover, it petitions the administration to provide a conscience clause to protect the religious freedom and beliefs of Catholics.

In his letter Cardinal Burke declared:

 

I wholeheartedly express my solidarity with the Stop The Birth Control Mandate petition promoted by St. Gianna Physician’s Guild protesting the recent decree by the Department of Health and Human Services of our federal government. I encourage Catholics to sign the petition and thus unite their support of Holy Mother Church by protesting the most grievous violation of the right to religious liberty for Catholics in the United States.

Cardinal Burke has long had the reputation of providing guidance in areas of faith and morals through his willingness to make public statements to encourage the Faithful.

‘The petition sends a clear message to the Obama Administration that this contraception mandate is wrong, discriminatory and violates the religious rights of Catholics all across America,’ stated the Guild’s President, Thomas McKenna.

McKenna noted that already more than 150 Catholic bishops across the country have written letters decrying the mandate. ‘It is inspiring to see the bishops speaking out with such determination and moral clarity in encouraging the faithful to oppose the mandate. St. Gianna Physician’s Guild applauds their leadership,’ McKenna continued.

The petition has provided Catholics and people of all faiths an outlet to express their outrage in what many feel is an act of government tyranny. The petition was posted on the Archdiocese of Denver’s web site and has resulted in parishioners collecting signatures after weekend Masses.

St Gianna Physician’s Guild ( www.StGiannaPhysicians.org) was founded to unite and encourage Catholic physicians, as well as others in the health care profession, to promote and defend Catholic principles in a public way and to inspire sanctification in their lives. The petition can be signed at:www.StopTheBirthControlMandate.org

Christian Newswire

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