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Thread #152434   Message #3573497
Posted By: Songwronger
06-Nov-13 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: So who's signed up for Obamacare?
Subject: RE: BS: So who's signed up for Obamacare?
Now THIS is interesting. From the World Socialist Website, today:

US government exempts new health exchanges from anti-fraud standards

In an October 30 letter, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius revealed that the Obama administration has determined that programs created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not federal health care plans. This decision, which flies in the face of common sense, exempts the Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) and state-based and federally facilitated Marketplaces from laws banning kickbacks and various forms of semi-legal fraud perpetrated by pharmaceutical companies and other interested parties.

As the New York Times wrote November 4, "The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs, like Medicare."

And so on...

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/06/exem-n06.html

So, Obama is ENCOURAGING corruption in the new system.