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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has 
ignored congressional inquiries about an expensive program, 
which the Government Accountability Office recommended she 
cancel, that hides Obamacare cuts to Medicare Advantage until 
after the presidential election.

HHS has spent $8.3 billion on a demonstration project that, in 
theory, �test[s] whether a tiered bonus structure would produce 
better results� by providing bonuses to insurance companies.

�The G.A.O. said the project �dwarfs all other Medicare 
demonstrations� in its impact on the budget, but is so poorly 
designed that researchers could not tell whether the bonus 
payments led to improved care,� The New York Times reported in 
April.

The GAO researchers told Congress the program should be stopped 
� it has never called for the cancellation of a demonstration 
program before � but Sebelius is unresponsive.

�After the Committee�s hearing on the Demonstration, we sent you 
a letter on August 1, 2012, asking for more detailed information 
about the Demonstration,� House Oversight and Government Reform 
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote Sebelius today 
in a letter co-authored by Subcommittee Chairman James Lankford, 
R-Okla. �We requested a response by August 13, 2012, but six 
weeks later we still have not received one.

The Washington Examiner asked HHS why Sebelius had not answered 
the first letter from the House investigators, but HHS did not 
immediately respond.

The oversight committee says that �The $8.3 billion spent 
through the extralegal project is enough to offset 71% of 
Obamacare�s cuts to the popular Medicare Advantage program set 
to take place before the November elections.�

Issa and Lankford accused Sebelius of trying to help President 
Obama stay in the White House. �The Committee is concerned that 
the only plausible explanation is that, realizing the political 
danger of the law�s large cuts to Medicare Advantage during an 
election year, you decided to utilize a loophole in the Social 
Security Act to implement a temporary bandage that would cover 
up PPACA�s large cuts to the 13 million seniors enrolled in 
Medicare Advantage,� they wrote on August 1.

Sebelius will be campaigning with the president this weekend in 
New Hampshire. Two weeks ago, the Office of Special Counsel 
faulted her for violating the Hatch Act by campaigning for Obama 
during an official event that was paid for by taxpayers. The 
Democratic National Committee reimbursed HHS for the event after 
Sebelius made an unscripted call for voters to back the 
president, and HHS retroactively classified the trip as a 
political one.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2509190?slideout=1

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