They are truly determined to own healthcare. Good for them.
Bad for the US but theyâre turning a gray issue into black & white.
Is anyone surprised? [rhetorical]
This is why we need a functioning press, to dig this stuff up.
Couldnât a qui tam action be brought, to punish this?
Price usually profits from initiatives, or at least did while in Congress. Does he own the filming company? Or does he collect rent on the studio? Iâm sure there must be something in it for him.
Republicanâts run on a platform of, âGovernment is broken!â Then they get elected and break itâŚ
my limited understanding of qui tam is that it is a private citizen suing a non-government entity/individual on behalf of the US government.
Anti-Deficiency Act anyone? Itâs illegal to spend funds for purposes other than those for which they were appropriated.
âOutreach fundsâ magically turning into âReach-out & fuck you funds.â
Earlier this year, HHS also had pulled ads encouraging people to enroll in health insurance plans through the exchanges for 2017, saying that the department would not âcontinue spending millions of taxpayersâ dollars promoting a failed government program.â The department said at the time that it would return the costs savings to the U.S. Treasury.
But theyâll spend money trying to tear down the bill?? These people are pressed as fuck to sabotage Obamacare no matter the cost and no matter how many Americans are against it.
Iâm glad that the Daily Beast uncovered this story.
It is so hard for me to believe that it is not somehow illegal for a government entity of any kind to subvert money specified for one purpose to the exact opposite purpose. But I am not a lawyer, just a person with a basic sense of right and wrong. Such a silly anachronistic view of the world.
WTF!?!?!?! Time for a writ of mandamus.
Itâs deliberate misappropriation of taxpayer funds. Itâs gotta be at least borderline illegal or it would be done with impunity more often.
This makes perfect sense. T rump filled his cabinet with criminals to commit crimes. Whatâs so shocking about that?! What did you expect?!
Best way to save HHS?
PricelessâŚ
Perhaps violates Burwell?
I was wondering how long it would take for this to become known.