When President Obama sold his health care plan to the American people, he did so based on the broad notion that government really can run your life better than you can, even when it comes to your own health care. He did this in spite of massive evidence to the contrary from all walks of life, confident that Washington bureaucracy knows best.
Yet even before the major portions of Obamacare have been put in place, government bureaucrats are already falling behind and failing to keep their legislative promises to us. A new report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, commissioned by Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and others, finds astounding proof of the total administrative failure in implementing Obamacare. Coburn, who last week introduced an innovative new legislative package to stop Medicare and Medicaid fraud, continues to take the lead in pointing out the administrative problems of this big government regime.
According to the report, HHS has already missed one-third of the deadlines contained within the legislation for the first six months under Obama’s law. Below the fold is a list of the seven missed deadlines. Additionally, there were four deadlines where CRS could not reach a conclusion based on their research — meaning even more could have been missed. And this is just at the six month mark — imagine where we’ll be by 2014!
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