How much of a debacle will the implementation of Obamacare be? Here’s an indication: the Department of Health and Human Services has already missed four deadlines.
It gets worse. HHS says it’s only missed three of them. The one they say they’ve met:
She defended the administration’s approach on one of the missed deadlines – a requirement under the health-care law that HHS publish “a list of all of the authorities provided to the secretary under this act” on its website.
Santillo pointed The Daily Caller to a page listing the names of sections in the law, such as “Sec. 1562. Conforming amendments.”
Republican critics say the list, which links to parts of the actual bill text, doesn’t meet the letter or spirit of the law’s requirement, which is included in a section of the law titled, “Transparency in government.”
“Now it looks like the simplest job assigned to the Obama administration – outlining its own new authorities and responsibilities — was so daunting that HHS decided just to reprint the table of contents from the new law until they can sort things out,” said Lisa Miller, a spokeswoman for Rep. Joe Barton of Texas.
They literally printed the bill’s table of contents and said that satisfies the transparency requirement. That gives us a lot of confidence in the care they’ll put into running health care.
POSTSCRIPT: One of the deadlines was actually mathematically impossible to meet. I suppose HHS is off-the-hook for that one, but it sure doesn’t make the bill sound any better thought-out.
(Via Hot Air.)
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