The Obamacare police are coming

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Get ready. The termination line forms to the left.

Terry Jeffrey

Congress Must Stop $105.5 Billion in Automatic Obamacare Spending

Thanks to the irrepressible Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who is emerging as the most energetic and principled conservative leader of the 112th Congress, the Congressional Research Service published a report on Feb. 10 detailing how the Obama administration is planning to spend $105.5 billion that was put on an appropriations autopilot in the health care legislation the Democrat-majority Congress enacted last year.

Unless the Republican-controlled House in this Congress can force President Obama to sign new legislation forbidding dispersal of this $105.5 billion, the administration will spend it to lay the basic foundations for a socialistic health care system in the United States.

The CRS report includes a 12-page table itemizing a broad array of intrusions into the prerogatives of states and individuals authorized by provisions in the Obamacare law and funded for this and future years without the need of Congress passing the customary annual appropriations laws to underwrite them.

According to the CRS report, the automatically funded Obamacare items include, among others:

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Under the Obamacare law, a "high risk Medicare beneficiary" is "a Medicare beneficiary who has attained a minimum hierarchical condition category score, as determined by the secretary, based on a diagnosis of multiple chronic conditions or other risk factors associated with a hospital readmission or substandard transition into post-hospitalization care, which may include 1 or more of the following: (A) Cognitive impairment. (B) Depression. (C) A history of multiple readmissions. (D) Any other chronic disease or risk factor as determined by the Secretary." In plain English: This $500 million for "community-based organizations" to take control of ill, elderly people.

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