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Obama Admin Missing Deadlines on Obamacare

By Phil

President Barack Obama looks on as Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2009, after he nominated her for Health & Human Services Secretary. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

According to DailyCaller.com, the Obama Administration is beginning to miss a number of key deadlines for the implementation of Obamacare — a sign that this piece of government largesse could be in the first steps of stumbling:

Congressional staff and industry representatives have also been asking HHS for a timeline specifying when it will issue the numerous regulations required by the law. They were shocked to find the agency has not produced such a document, one aide said.

The issue is important because vast industry sectors are trying to plan their own implementations of the health-care law and most of the details remain in bureaucrats? hands, leaving a vacuum of uncertainty about the final burdens the law will impose.

The missed deadlines include creating task forces on breast cancer and Alaskan health care, publishing a list of new authorities granted under the law, and setting a schedule for a Government Accountability Office study and financial audit.

Health and Human Services (HHS) spokeswoman Jessica Santillo pointed to a page listing sections of the new law and noted that the Administration had already implemented some sections of the law.

Of course, while the Administration hasn’t had time to deal with minor sections of the law, they’ve wasted no time in marketing:

While missing the deadlines, the administration has found time to send promotional material touting the law?s benefit, including a brochure for senior citizens and post cards from the IRS advertising tax breaks under the law.

Here is a full listing of missed deadlines:

April 1: Under section 5602, a progress report to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding developing a methodology for designating medically underserved populations and health professional shortage areas.

April 22: Under section 1552, HHS must publish a list of new authorities it was granted by the health-care law. (Note: HHS says this deadline has been met).

May 7: Under section 5104, HHS is to establish a task force on improving health care in Alaska.

May 23: Under section 399NN, HHS is to establish a task force on breast cancer, part of legislation originally titled the EARLY Act.

How much do you wanna bet that a breach of contract has no effective remedy for the citizens (as in, Congress passes a law that, in theory, everyone agrees to be beholden to)?

-Phil

Email: phil [at] therightsideoflife [dot] com

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Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).