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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 |
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