The Patriot Post® · O'Care Not a Federal Program?

According to HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, ObamaCare isn’t considered a federal health care program, therefore it doesn’t have to play by the same rules as other entitlement programs. The New York Times reports, “the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies on behalf of low-income people are ‘federal health care programs.’” As a result, the decree “exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs, like Medicare.” Unsurprisingly, Sebelius offered no legal reasoning, just simply an opinion of the law. Then again, this entire administration adheres to the rule of men.