Wednesday, June 26, 2013

An Army of Tens of Thousands to roll out Obamacare

Call them Obamacare's army. 
From the chief actuary at the California health insurance exchange that President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law established to the legions of call center staffers who will help people trying to buy insurance through such state exchanges, the number of people working to implement "Obamacare" has reached the tens of thousands, a Reuters analysis has found. 
No one said that overhauling healthcare, which accounts for 17% of all national spending, was going to happen with a skeleton crew. 
State offices that will run insurance exchanges are hiring tens of thousands, either on staff or through outsourcing firms. Federal agencies that are key to implementing the law, such as the Internal Revenue Service, plan to hire thousands more, and private non-profit groups backed by the White House are dispatching thousands of newly hired staffers and volunteers into the field.
The number of such workers, obtained through documents and interviews with officials, consultants and contractors, could be significant enough to produce a modest, if temporary, boost to employment across several industries. 
But the precise size of this workforce is shrouded in secrecy. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not reply to a question asking how many people it has hired or assigned to implement healthcare reform, and companies with government contracts worth tens of millions of dollars are similarly tight-lipped.
HHS spent $394 million through last March on contracts to set up state insurance exchanges it will run, according to a report this week by the Government Accountability office, the investigative arm of Congress. Among them: an $88 million contract with CGI Federal Inc. for information technology work and a $55 million contract with Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI) to build a "data hub" that will allow people to buy insurance on the state exchanges that are the heart of Obamacare. 
But "we do not have information on the number of people involved to implement it," said John Dicken, GAO's director of healthcare. 
Asked how many people its grant supported, QSSI Vice-President Mark Labus said, "That's not information I'm authorized to release."
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8 comments:

BOSMAN said...

Well...he said he'd create jobs..something tells me though that most folks didn't think this was what he meant.

Anonymous said...

We're losing on everything. Life, marriage, taxes, freedom, national security, the environment, healthcare, etc.

Tell me somewhere Americans/The Constitution are winning, I can't find ONE.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah forgot immigration. We're losing there too. I read that thousands of people from terrorist or terrorist-supporting states have already crossed the border from Mexico. It's only a matter of time until we have more strikes, and the possibility of dirty bombs.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah, plus I forgot Anthony Weinerhead. Tell me how on God's green earth can a freakin perv like that win elective office?

We are TOAST.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

There is ONE bright spot, Martha. Anthony "Weinerhead," as you have appropriately named him is at least a democrat perv and not a republican one. Thank God for tender mercies, and I mean that today! Pres. Obama has promised churches won't be forced to marry gays, which means making them do it is the next item on his agenda. People who believe he will protect the rights of those who don't support him are fools indeed. Of course, religious freedom will be only a memory. After all, we will be able to meet together in our churches what more could we possibly want? No one actually tries to apply what they learn at church, do they?


AZ

Anonymous said...

AZ, exactly! It won't be long until churches are forced to accept gay marriage. ObamaCare trampling on religious freedom is only the beginning.

-Martha








Anonymous said...

The left has a terrible disconnect between their manufactured rights and the ones in the Constitution. Especially religious freedom. They confuse the freedom of worship, which is the right to meet together with religious freedom, which is the right to actually live it. Religious people can go to Church, as long as it doesn't interfere with what good leftists BELIEVE should happen. If the church people actually try to assert their rights, they must be silenced or crushed.

Martha, did you see the statement the Church put out on the ruling? It was pretty clear. I think it will become necessary for the Church to separate marriages and do civil ceremonies first like they have to do in many countries, to avoid the lawsuits ahead when the Church will not marry gays.

AZ

Anonymous said...

AZ, yes I did see it. There is going to be great pressure coming on all churches now to conform or else.

I'm surprised there isn't more outrage about how Obama is forcing Catholics to cover services they are morally opposed to. Religious freedom can vanish right before our eyes.

-Martha