The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee effectively is accusing the department of stringing them along for months in their request for documents about an $8 billion program that pays bonuses to Medicare Advantage plans.
Issa claims the bonus program is being used to mask the first round of Medicare Advantage cuts in connection with the health care overhaul -- in order to win favor with seniors.
\"It\'s an unbelievable abuse of power,\" he said Thursday. Issa said the program basically funds \"what ObamaCare took away.\"
The program in question is called a \"demonstration\" project. But Issa complains the project is far more sweeping than a run-of-the-mill test program, and conveniently lastsuntil 2014.
\"This is larger than every test they\'ve ever done at HHS combined,\" Issa said. Issa\'s committee put out a video Thursday explaining its allegations.
The congressman further says the effects of ObamaCare\'s $200 billion in Medicare Advantage cuts over the next decade would have been felt starting this week -- if not for the bonus payments. Thanks to them, he wrote in an August letter, the project offsets 71 percent of the cuts this year.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/18/issa-to-issue-subpoena-over-obamacare-documents/#ixzz29i7EGfH7
Yall might remember me tellin yall about how the docs were going to get a little bump at first in payments, but then after 2014 it would be gone and the real cuts would happen. this is it.
and they are using thhis to buy votes, the cuts shouuld have started now, but they are hiding that by spending this cash till after the eltion is over,
damn crooks
Issa claims the bonus program is being used to mask the first round of Medicare Advantage cuts in connection with the health care overhaul -- in order to win favor with seniors.
\"It\'s an unbelievable abuse of power,\" he said Thursday. Issa said the program basically funds \"what ObamaCare took away.\"
The program in question is called a \"demonstration\" project. But Issa complains the project is far more sweeping than a run-of-the-mill test program, and conveniently lastsuntil 2014.
\"This is larger than every test they\'ve ever done at HHS combined,\" Issa said. Issa\'s committee put out a video Thursday explaining its allegations.
The congressman further says the effects of ObamaCare\'s $200 billion in Medicare Advantage cuts over the next decade would have been felt starting this week -- if not for the bonus payments. Thanks to them, he wrote in an August letter, the project offsets 71 percent of the cuts this year.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/18/issa-to-issue-subpoena-over-obamacare-documents/#ixzz29i7EGfH7
Yall might remember me tellin yall about how the docs were going to get a little bump at first in payments, but then after 2014 it would be gone and the real cuts would happen. this is it.
and they are using thhis to buy votes, the cuts shouuld have started now, but they are hiding that by spending this cash till after the eltion is over,
damn crooks