When making a decision, it’s important to have all the facts. It includes whether you are going to call your Senator and encourage them to vote for or against a bill. For example, if you didn’t know about a report that showed ObamaCare would cause an increase in insurance premiums, you might call and tell your Senator that you were all for ObamaCare.
Of course, if you did know about that report, you might call and tell your Senator something different.
Not that the most transparent administration in the history of transparency would keep anything under wraps:
The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama’s health care “reform” law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius’s staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.
“The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the vote,” says an HHS source. “Which is actually the point of having a review like this, you would think.”
The analysis, performed by Medicare’s Office of the Actuary, which in the past has been identified as a “nonpolitical” office, set off alarm bells when submitted. “We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff,” says the HHS staffer, “and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary’s office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report.”
Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades HQ writes:
So in addition to midnight votes and bribes to reluctant Congressmen, the Obama folks sat on government reports, reports that the taxpayers paid for, which would have shined a light on the President’s healthcare reform lies. And that’s what they were. He can’t plead ignorance. His own actuaries were telling him it would raise premiums while he was going on TV and saying the opposite.
Well, you can’t let a crisis go to waste. Even one that is manufactured.
