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Obama spent $4.4 billion in taxpayer money to shove Obamacare down our throats
J. D. Heyes naturalnews.com 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"? [http://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.
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