Date: May 28, 2014 8:49 AM
Subject: ObamaCare 5 BILLION - iPhone 150 million
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Originally
published May 28 2014
More than
$5 billion spent on Obamacare website so far - compare that to just $150
million spent to develop iPhone
by
Jonathan Benson, staff writer
(NaturalNews)
According to new reports, billions of taxpayer dollars have been thrown at the
Obamacare portal known as healthcare.gov,
as well as the many individual state exchanges that link up to it since the
insurance takeover was first announced. A whopping $5 billion, which is more
than 33 times the amount spent by Apple to develop the iPhone, has been wasted
on failed websites, fraudulent contractors and ultimately, false promises from
the Obama administration.
The
Fiscal Times
reports that most of the individual state exchanges still don't work, despite
being injected with tens of millions of dollars in funding. According to Politico,
the failed website exchanges of Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon and Nevada,
have collectively racked up nearly $500 million in costs and still do not
function. And many of these states are now planning to just scrap their sites
and switch over to the federal exchange.
"A
handful of state-run exchange websites -- which cost nearly half a billion
dollars to build -- still don't work, nearly seven months after they first went
live," writes Brianna Ehley for The Fiscal Times. "The costs
will continue to climb as states scramble to salvage the flailing websites or
transition onto the federal exchange."
Maryland
doles out $130 million on website that doesn't work
The
Maryland exchange, for instance, which has already seen $90 million spent on
its development, is completely useless. State lawmakers plan to throw another
$40 million at it to try to get it up and running, but the outcome is not very
promising. Similar failures have occurred in Nevada, where $50 million has been
spent on that state's failed Obamacare website. And
the list goes on.
"Taxpayers
will have to pay whether their state-based exchange fails or not," stated
Josh Archambault, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Government
Accountability.
Other
states like Oregon have spent far more on their failed websites. The $259
million forked out for "Cover Oregon" has yet to result in a working website, which is why the state recently
decided to just scrap the whole thing and spend $5 million to be added to healthcare.gov. Naturally,
nobody in Oregon will be held accountable for the more than one-quarter of a
trillion dollars that was essentially poured down the drain.
Obamacare
was doomed from the start, finds report
The
Washington Post
(WP) recently conducted a review that revealed inherent problems with the
exchange from the very start. It explains that there have been "repeated
missteps at almost every level" that have made it virtually impossible for
the system to function as claimed, which means the billions of dollars spent on the program have essentially
lined the pockets of Obama's friends while taxpayers foot the bill.
"The
billions of dollars wasted on building Obamacare's exchanges are a prime
example of both government waste and incompetency," writes Alyene Senger
for Heritage.org.
With
nearly $5 billion already wasted on Obamacare, it is disconcerting to think
that another $2 billion is expected to be thrown at the program in 2014. A
Congressional Budget Office report anticipates more state grants to be
disbursed throughout 2014, despite the fact that the current system is clearly
not working, at least not in the best interests of the public.
Meanwhile,
considerably less was spent on developing the iPhone, one of the most
innovative consumer electronics products ever imagined. The disparity between
how far a dollar goes in the private sector compared to the government sector
-- or in this case, the authoritarian sector -- is simply mind-blowing, and
demonstrates yet again why a massive scaling back of federal power is absolutely
required if America hopes to survive as a nation.
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