End Obamacare Slush Fund

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee will do a markup on a new bill that would repeal a multi-billion slush fund that the Obama administration is using as a partisan political tool to advance ObamaCare.

                               

Our friends at Americans for Tax Reform describe why this legislation is so important: Currently, two billion dollars is given each year in perpetuity to an Obamacare slush fund known as the Prevention and Public Health fund. The Department of Health and Human Services is then free to spend these funds as they see fit, without any Congressional oversight. ...

                               

Most alarmingly, a 2012 Inspector general alert raised concerns that these payments equated to taxpayer funded lobbying, while former Democrat Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) expressed concern that hundreds of millions sent to the fund have been diverted to encourage individuals to sign-up for Obamacare.

                               

Members of Congress have the opportunity to repeal this slush fund by voting for H.R. 4725, the "Common Sense Savings Act," introduced by Energy and Commerce

Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-Pa.).

                               

Repealing this ObamaCare slush fund would mean $30 billion in real savings for American taxpayers.  As I wrote in a letter to Members of Congress today, "Conservatism is measured not by a purity of intentions, but actual outcomes.

With its passage, this measure disposes of a slush fund and diminishes spending and would be an important achievement. To oppose this bill is to support an irresponsible slush fund and wasteful government spending."

                               

I urge you to email your congressman, and then urge him or her to do all they can to ensure the passage of the "Common Sense Savings Act as soon as possible.

                              

Sincerely, Carrie Lukas, VP for Policy & Economics Independent Women's Voice