HHS Buried Medicare Estimate on Health Care Bill Costs

HHS Secretary Kathy Sibelius

"Please raise your right hand."


This morning on C-Span I watched a Republican congresswoman (I believe it was Candice Miller, R-MI) speaking about the breaking scandal that HHS Secretary Kathy Sibelius and her staff worked to bury a report by the Medicare Office of the Actuary that raised the estimate of the costs of the health care bill and costs to consumers until weeks after the vote was conducted. The below article is from the American Spectator.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/26/what-lies-beneath

And from Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/22/health-care-law-increase-costs-experts-conclude-new-report/

Here's the actual report:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22621957/OACT-Memorandum-on-Financial-Impact-of-H-R-3962-11-13-09-NoPW



Remember this? Honesty? Openness?


If true, it appears that HHS Secretary Sibelius and others in her department as well as the White House need to be put under oath by Congress, which I am sure will want to get to the bottom of this mess.

Right, Congress?.