House Republican: Tax Refund Money Illegally Funding Obamacare Program : BY MICHAEL WARREN

House Republican: Tax Refund Money Illegally Funding Obamacare Program : BY MICHAEL WARREN

The Obama administration is funding a provision of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutionally and against the decision of Congress, a Republican House member says. Peter Roskam of Illinois joined Fox News's Greta van Susteren Thursday to talk about the details of his findings in an oversight investigation by the House Ways and Means committee.

"We've just learned that the administration is paying out of a tax refund account, not appropriated money, into something called the Basic Health Program, which was authorized by Obamacare to subsidize various health insurance programs, but Congress never authorized any money for it," Roskam said. "And we've just learned over the last couple of weeks that the administration has paid out $60 million to the state of Minnesota, and that's just for one month."                      https://youtu.be/hwn-3oDdabA                                                                                                                                                                he Washington Examiner has more:

Minnesota is the only state that has set up the basic health program, although New York is taking steps in that direction. If states opt in, the federal government would cover 95 percent of the subsidies that enrollees would have otherwise collected in the marketplaces, although it's not allowed to cover administrative costs.

Aides said they only recently discovered how the administration was funding Minnesota's program, through looking at the state's first-quarter payment this year.

Prodded by Roskam at a hearing Wednesday, Burwell acknowledged the basic health program payments are coming out of the IRS fund but said "tax credits for programs" aren't part of the discretionary funding that must be approved by Congress.      http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-launch-new-attack-on-obamacare-funding/article/2566073

Re: House Republican: Tax Refund Money Illegally Funding Obamacare Program : BY MICHAEL WARREN

No surprise Barry is doing this. The entire program will collapse before long. In my state, which opted to set up a State program will have to dip into the "Rainy Day Fund" next year to the tune of 9 million unless they can sucker more folks to drop what they have and buy Obamacare.