KEY OBAMACARE CONTRACTOR HAS ETHICS WOES “Accenture, the contractor hired to fix ongoing problems with the federal health exchange website, has been heavily criticized by some of its largest clients, including federal agencies, according to a published report. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Postal Service Inspector Generals Office recommended this past June that the agency consider terminating more than $200 million in contracts with Accenture. The recommendation cited an ‘absence of business ethics’ by the firm, including a 2011 settlement with the Justice Department to resolve allegations of ‘kickbacks’ and ‘bid-rigging’ in federal contracts. Accenture, which paid $63 million to resolve the claims, denied the allegations.” More [Fox News: “The glitches and other problems with the ObamaCare website that sparked a national firestorm are similar to those military veterans using the federal government’s online benefits system have routinely faced for about the past 18 months…” ] Obama regulatory backlog grows - Daily Caller: * * * * * * * * * * “Twenty-eight significant Obamacare regulations are still waiting for approval * * * * * * * * * * , according new study from the free-market American Action Forum (AAF), including five-month old rules surrounding the individual mandate. …+++++++++++ The IRS itself may soon be struggling to get ready for its own…[ObamaCare] responsibilities in time. It’s already going to take the ( ( ( ( ( ( IRS 7.5 million hours to implement the individual mandate.” ) ) ) ) ) ) ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Exclusive: ObamaCare plaintiff speaks out - Watch Fox: Correspondent Shannon Bream talks exclusively with Hobby Lobby President, Steve Green, who is battling ObamaCare’s birth-control mandate. Supreme Court justices will soon hear arguments on Green’s claim that the law’s requirement that company subsidize the “morning-after pill” infringes on his religious freedom. Millions falling into ObamaCare gap - WSJ details why millions of lower-income Americans, too poor for ObamaCare subsidies and caught between mismatched state and Federal rules in states without expanded Medicaid programs are left without coverage. [WSJ: “Hospitals backed the health-care law because it promised to create new, paying customers. Instead, the failure to expand Medicaid coverage by some states not only adds fewer insured patients, it also eliminates the payments hospitals had long received to cover the cost of uninsured people they treat free.”]
Posted on: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:25:28 +0000
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