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If the design of this program was bad, the implementation has been even worse. Costs have been disappointingly high, and enrollment disappointingly low. In fact, by the time 107,000 Americans had signed up—that’s far below the 600,000 to 700,000 that the Congressional Budget Office expected—the program’s money had run out. The Administration shouldn’t be surprised that PCIP faces a budget crunch: The CBO warned that $5 billion would fall woefully short.
The PCIP is far from the only part of ObamaCare that has faced serious setbacks. The 1099 provision and the CLASS Act have been repealed. No part of the law has come in under budget.....
Now that ObamaCare is law, the Obama Administration is no longer pretending to care about the sickest Americans. Although Secretary Sebelius has the authority to move funds into this program, she hasn’t, instead using her so-called “Prevention and Public Health Fund” (known as the Prevention Fund, or Slush Fund) to bankroll various activities without oversight.
This sends the message to the 40,000 people with pre-existing conditions who want to enroll in the program that they aren’t the real priority now that they are no longer politically useful. Instead, the “Prevention” fund has financed such apparently higher priorities such as pet neutering campaigns, bike/park signs, and gardening, and more disturbingly lobbying campaigns to advance liberal causes such as enacting fast food construction moratoriums and higher soda taxes; now it is being used for liberal activist groups to promote enrollment and pour money down the exchange rat hole.
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