{"id":2929,"date":"2011-05-01T21:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2011-05-01T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:02:44","slug":"more_of_we_have_to_pass_the_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"More Of &#8220;We Have To Pass The Bill To See What&#8217;s In It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/blog\/dean-clancy\/discovered-an-unlimited-obamacare-slush-fund\">Freedomworks<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article about a provision of Obamacare that was somehow overlooked in the debate.<\/p>\n<p>This is the provision as stated in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><strong>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the relevant legal language from 1311(a):<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><strong>&#8220;(1) PLANNING AND ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS.&#8211;There shall be appropriated to the Secretary, out of&nbsp;any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount necessary to enable the Secretary&nbsp;to make awards, not later than 1 year after enactment of this Act, to States in amounts specified in&nbsp;paragraph (2) for the uses described in paragraph (3).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><strong>&#8220;(2) AMOUNT SPECIFIED.&#8211;For each fiscal year, the Secretary shall determine the total amount that&nbsp;the Secretary will make available to each State for grants under this subsection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><strong>&#8220;(3) USE OF FUNDS.&#8211;A State shall use amounts awarded under this subsection for activities&nbsp;(including planning activities) related to establishing an American Health Benefit Exchange, as&nbsp;described in subsection (b).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><strong>. . .&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><strong>&#8220;(4)(B).&#8211; &#8220;No grant shall be awarded under this subsection after January 1, 2015.&#8221;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\">What this does, essentially, is set up a slush fund that will end in 2015.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\">The article further reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\"><em>&#8220;Under Mr. Obama&#8217;s approving eye, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, is already busy using this uncapped fund to seduce states into collaborating in the implementation of Obamacare. She&#8217;s issued <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/ociio\/initiative\/grant_award_faq.html\" jquery1304298205420=\"68\"><em>nearly $50 million in grants<\/em><\/a><em> to help states &#8220;plan and evaluate&#8221; how they&#8217;ll set up exchanges by 2014 as the law requires them to do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1.5em\">Unfortunately, we are about to see how principled our state governments are.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not optimistic.&nbsp; Please follow the link to the article to read further details of this aspect of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Freedomworks&nbsp;posted an article about a provision of Obamacare that was somehow overlooked in the debate. This is the provision as stated in the article: &#8220;Here&#8217;s the relevant legal language from 1311(a): &#8220;(1) PLANNING AND ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS.&#8211;There shall be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2929\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}