Thursday, December 12, 2013

HHS Awards Another $58M for Obamacare "Navigators"

These grants come on top of $150 million previously given to such health centers to "support outreach and enrollment activities" for Obamacare. - Weekly Standard

White House Works to Draw Younger Users. Sebelius says social media, celebrities will help get out the message - Wall St. Journal

New Obamacare taxes hike cost of children's braces, prescription eyeglasses - MarketWatch

REPORT: Taxpayers Shell Out $14,000 per 'Enrollee' - $5.2 billion for just 364,682 “enrollees” - ATR
In her testimony before Congress today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provided an updated dollar amount for the cost of HealthCare.gov: $677 million. In addition to the $677 million spent on the federal Obamacare website, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has shoveled $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to promote Obamacare on the state level.
Admin. continues to manipulate, bury real statistics - Wall St. Journal
Most of Washington seems to have bought the White House claim that the 36 federal exchanges are finally working, and glory, glory, hallelujah. But if that's really true, then what explains the ongoing secrecy and evasion?