Friday, November 15, 2013

Report: Feds spent $4.4 BILLION on state Obamacare exchanges

Data compiled and released Friday by the conservative organization Americans for Tax Reform reveals the amount of federal tax dollars funneled to states to implement Obamacare exchanges at $4.4 billion.
According to ATR, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services distributed the funds to states for a variety of “vague” purposes.
ATR pulled out grant purposes such as:

States that did not end up setting up there own Obamacare exchanges also received money, according to ATR’s research.
Alabama for example, received $9,772,451 in two grants in 2010 and 2011 one for planning the exchange and the other to “support core staff, contracts, and activities around early implementation of the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange.”
Many of the states that did end up creating their own exchanges received more money than those that did not.
ATR’s tax policy director Ryan Ellis told The Daily Caller that it was not clear from CMS’ records what ended up happening to the money provided to states to set up exchanges that in the end decided not establish their own exchange.
“Presumably, [the funding] was to try to get those states to change their mind at an earlier stage of development,” Ellis wrote in an email.

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