HSS Director admits double counting savings

[esmith]

Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, says they double counted the $500 billion in Medicare cuts. During a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee that they used the $500 billion cuts in Medicare to preserve Medicare and to fund Obama Care. You can read the article here:

Obamacare Cost | HHS Director Admits Double Counting Funds | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

 

[Revoltingest]

Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, says they double counted the $500 billion in Medicare cuts. During a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee that they used the $500 billion cuts in Medicare to preserve Medicare and to fund Obama Care. You can read the article here:
Obamacare Cost | HHS Director Admits Double Counting Funds | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

It's really hard to grasp what's going on.
Perhaps that's the intent, ie, to make the budget process inscrutable.
Is this true, that $500billion is being counted twice?

 

[esmith]

It's really hard to grasp what's going on.
Perhaps that's the intent, ie, to make the budget process inscrutable.
Is this true, that $500billion is being counted twice?

Well the budget process is smoke and mirrors. But yes the administration said that they were saving $500 billion by cutting Medicare, but then turned around and said the were spending the savings on Obama care. Let's see, for example we have $100 in Medicare and cut $5.00 so we have saved $5.00. We now take the $5 we saved and spend it on Obama Care. Have we saved any money? The administration knows that the school systems are so screwed up that people can't do math, so they say they saved $5.00.

 

[gzusfrk]

I remember when she was in kansas, she said she was going to get rid of them very high interest loan places that was hurting the poor, she did nothing about them after she got in office, now their eveywhere. Here we go again.I wonder what them people do all day long.