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(NaturalNews) New outrages regarding Obamacare surface nearly every day now, so  it should not be surprising to learn this: The Obama administration spent a  whole lot more to roll out the disastrous law than just a few hundred  million on a failed website that is still under construction.
Billions  more, in fact.
According to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a watchdog  group, Obama's administration has spent a minimum of $4.5 billion on  Obamacare, much of it for useless overhead and pointless assistance.
ATR,  in examining public data, found that much of the money - which was largely spent  setting up other federally managed state healthcare exchange websites - was  "funneled through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a  division of the Kathleen Sebelius-run Department of Health and Human Services  (HHS)."
The watchdog added: "CMS distributed the taxpayer dollars to  states in several waves of grants. According to CMS data, federal taxpayer funds  were shoveled to states for a variety of vague purposes."
Those  include:
-- "preparations to demonstrate operational  readiness"
-- "Provide assistance to hire staff and  consultants"
-- "continue and complete current planning and  implementation efforts"
-- "secure staff consultants and expert  resources and actively engage stakeholders"
-- "marketplace IT  system design and development costs including IT consultants and privacy and  security consultants."
-- "hire executive leadership to: (1)  further operationalize the Exchange to; (2) further enhance the IT Systems  needed to operate the Exchange"
-- "IT components fully extensible  and scalable to any other jurisdiction."
The organization went on to  compile a state-by-state list of how much tax money CMS spent in each:
State and Total Amount
Alabama:  $9,772,451 Alaska: Did not apply Arizona: $30,877,097 Arkansas:  $54,573,738 California: $910,605,370 Colorado:  $178,683,411 Connecticut: $184,096,903 Delaware: $12,936,639 Florida:  $1,000,000 Georgia: $1,000,000 Hawaii: $205,342,270 Idaho:  $69,395,587 Illinois: $154,813,136 Indiana: $7,895,126 Iowa:  $59,683,889 Kansas: $11,039,303 Kentucky: $253,698,351 Louisiana:  $1,000,000 Maine: $42,469,009 Maryland: $171,013,111 Massachusetts:  $179,036,455 Michigan: $41,517,021 Minnesota: $155,020,465 Mississippi:  $21,143,618 Missouri: $21,855,716 Montana: $1,000,000 Nebraska:  $6,481,838 Nevada: $83,775,083 New Hamp.: $7,267,088 New Jersey:  $8,897,316 New Mexico: $52,979,483 New York: $429,065,407 N. Carolina:  $98,357,315 N. Dakota: $1,000,000 Ohio: $1,000,000 Oklahoma:  $1,000,000 Oregon: $305,206,587 Pennsylvania: $34,831,212 Rhode Island:  $134,719,994 S. Carolina: $1,000,000 S. Dakota: $6,879,569 Tennessee:  $9,110,165 Texas: $1,000,000 Utah: $2,000,000 Vermont:  $208,232,414 Virginia: $6,567,803 Washington: $181,392,299 W. Virginia:  $20,832,828 Wisconsin: $999,873 Wyoming: $800,000 Wash., D.C.:  $133,573,928
Grand Total: $4,516,438,868
All that money, and the  system still doesn't work. What's more, few Americans are even using the  exchanges.
Remember when Obama said he wouldn't sign a health "reform"  bill "that adds one dime to the deficit"? [https://www.youtube.com/]
There is a reason why the  text of Obamacare was so massive. It needed to be to match the number of lies  being told to sell it.
Sources:
http://www.atr.org
https://www.youtube.com/
http://www.politico.com

Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/043037_Obamacare_taxpayer_funds_billions.html#ixzz2lhFbecyz

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