AFTiger 282 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 http://news.investor...lars.htm?p=full Alexander: Smelling something fishy in California's concealment of information on contracts. If you have to keep it a secret, you probably shouldn't be doing it.But the California legislature and the new Covered California health insurance exchange are conspiring to keep secret how they will dole out more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars to contractors. The lion's share of the money is going for what the exchange budget terms "outreach." In truth, the money is going to build Democratic Party enrollment. The Obama administration granted a whopping $910 million to California to set up its insurance exchange. That money is not for bandages, surgery, nurses and doctors to care for the sick. Nor is it for insurance plans, though $910 million could buy generous coverage for at least 113,000 people! Shockingly, the $910 million is slated for bureaucracy, including rich compensation packages for exchange employees ($360,000 a year for the executive director) and contracts for computer equipment, public relations and "outreach." Outreach is the largest expenditure and where the real monkey business occurs. Amazingly, California legislators passed a law that the exchange could keep secret for a year who received the contracts and indefinitely how much they were paid. California's open-records laws would otherwise prohibit such secrecy. Last week, Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and four other Republican senators on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee called for an investigation of California's concealing information on contracts awarded using federal taxpayer money. What is known so far suggests that California politicians are exploiting health reform to enroll millions of the uninsured in the Democratic Party and fill the coffers of left-wing interest groups with taxpayer money. Here are the facts to back up that cynical picture: California lawmakers passed a law (Senate Bill 35) requiring that voter registration be part of the health insurance exchange. Last month, Covered California announced $37 million in grants to 48 organizations to build public awareness about the opening of the health exchange on Oct. 1. Of the 48 organizations that got grants, only a handful are health-care related. The California NAACP received $600,000 to do door-to-door canvassing and presentations at community organizations. Service Employees International Union, which says its mission is "economic justice," received two grants totaling $2 million to make phone calls, robo-calls and go door to door. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO got $1 million for door-to-door, one-on-one education and social networking. It describes its role as "engaging in both organizing and political campaigns, electing pro-union and pro-worker candidates." Community Health Councils, a California organization with a long history of political activism against fracking, for-profit hospitals, state budget cuts and oil exploration, got $1 million to conduct presentations at community and neighborhood meetings and one-to-one sessions. These organizations, closely allied with the Democratic Party, are being funded by your tax dollars to conduct "outreach," meaning the kind of phone banking and door-to-door canvassing that activists do to turn out the vote. They will turn out the uninsured to enroll on the exchanges and in the Democratic Party. The $37 million awarded last month is only the first installment of California's $190.4 million to be spent on contracts for "outreach" through December 2014. In addition to outreach, California's actual enrollment process is also outsourced to employees of community organizations, unions and health clinics. These enrollment "assisters" will be paid $58 for each enrollee they sign up. An additional $49 million is budgeted to pay them the first year, but in future years, assisters will be paid out of the premiums collected by the exchange. The template is repeated in every state. The Obama health law creates a permanent stream of funding for unions and community activists by outsourcing insurance enrollment to them. Assisters will also guide the uninsured to sign up for whatever non-health social services they may be eligible for, including welfare, food stamps and housing assistance, according to the manual prepared by the Community Health Councils for California's implementation. Anyone who remembers the days of James Curley, Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall gets the picture. If you were poor or a newcomer to this country, you went to the local ward boss and got whatever you needed in exchange for your vote. The difference is that back then, politics was local. Now the Obama health law is institutionalizing this corrupt style of politics across the country. Whether you live in California or New York, local community activists and unions will be recruiting people to enroll in ObamaCare and sign up to be part of the permanent, beholden Democratic voting majority. Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investor...m#ixzz2Wmik7C00 Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augolf1716 22,094 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 smart by them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFTiger 282 Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 smart by them corruption is now smart? Then using the IRS to suppress opposition was positively brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autigeremt 7,262 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 smart by them corruption is now smart? Then using the IRS to suppress opposition was positively brilliant. If they can get away with it, it's called "smart".....golf is just being realistic about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFTiger 282 Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 so corruption is ok if you can get away with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 14,575 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Rightwing thinking: Informing people on how to enroll in healthcare = corruption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augolf1716 22,094 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 so corruption is ok if you can get away with it. Didn't say it was ok but DC has been corrupt for a very long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,137 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Difference between the Left and the Right, the Left are far more committed to effing up everyone's lives, so that we're all equally screwed. The Right just look out for their own interests, leaving the door wide open for mob rule to take control. We're hosed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexava 6,977 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Difference between the Left and the Right, the Left are far more committed to effing up everyone's lives, so that we're all equally screwed. The Right just look out for their own interests, leaving the door wide open for mob rule to take control. We're hosed. you are getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autigeremt 7,262 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Rightwing thinking: Informing people on how to enroll in healthcare = corruption The leftwingers have their own issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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