Comment: Today’s news includes charges that government budget limits have harmed the CDC’s ability to protect Americans from Ebola.
Protecting Americans is a basic function of the Federal government. The ObamacareTruthSquad notes, however, that CDC’s parent agency, the Dept. of Health and Human Services, seems to have had higher priorities.
FIXING OBAMACARE’S FAILED WEBSITE HHS lavished at least $121 million dollars of its supposedly scarce funds to “fix” Healthcare.gov, the failed Obamacare website that famously debuted to scathing reviews last October, 2013 (setting world-records for government fiasco, misrepresentation, and incompetence).
ADVERTISING In 2014, HHS spent an estimated $684 million just advertising its failed Obamacare website, and has asked for $774 million more in 2015.
HIDING MEDICARE CUTS In 2012, HHS also diverted at least $8.3 billion dollars of its funds shoring up the faltering law, in an effort to cover up the effect of Obamacare’s Medicare Advantage cuts. The sum diverted nearly equals the CDC’s entire $10.2 billion dollar 2013 annual budget.
Has Obamacare jeopardized America by diverting precious Ebola-prevention money to Obamacare’s failures? Some prominent progressives would seem to think so.
–OCTS original reporting, October 14, 2014