New Study Says “Incentives” in Dems’ Healthcare Takeover May Squander Away $20 Billion Annually in Taxpayer Money
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FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Pete Aguilar (CA-31), Jeff Anderson (MN-08), George Badey (PA-07), Ron Barber (AZ-08), John Barrow (GA-12), Ami Bera (CA-07), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Kathy Boockvar (PA-08), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), Andrei Cherny (AZ-09), David Cicilline (RI-01), Tarryl Clark (MN-08), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), David Crooks (IN-08), Rick Daugherty (PA-15), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Bill Foster (IL-11), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Pete Gallego (TX-23), John Garamendi (CA-03), David Gill (IL-13), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Clark Hall (AR-01), Brad Harriman (IL-12), Jose Hernandez (CA-10), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Paul Hirschbiel (VA-02), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Q. Byrum Hurst (AR-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Bill Keating (MA-09), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Dan Maffei (NY-24), Larry Maggi (PA-18), Jim Matheson (UT-04), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Brendan Mullen (IN-02), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Mark Murphy (NY-11), Rick Nolan (MN-08), John Oceguera (NV-03), Bill Owens (NY-21), Sal Pace (CO-03), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Raul Ruiz (CA-36), Lori Saldaña (CA-52), David Schapira (AZ-09), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Gene Stilp (PA-11), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Mark Takano (CA-41), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Manan Trivedi (PA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Tim Walz (MN-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
New Study Says “Incentives” in Sutton’s Healthcare Takeover May Squander Away $20 Billion Annually in Taxpayer Money
ObamaCare’s Bureaucracy Proves Wasteful, Ineffective WASHINGTON — An incentives program, a fundamental part of Betty Sutton’s big-government healthcare overhaul, has been exposed in a new study as potentially wasting $20 billion every year due to the incentives being so minuscule and poorly communicated. With a total price tag of nearly $2 trillion and with so many wasteful programs, Betty Sutton has chosen to support a healthcare takeover that has proven time and again to increase the national debt, cut $500 billion in senior care and degrade healthcare quality. “The findings of this new study is just another example of how Betty Sutton’s prized government takeover of healthcare is digging Ohio families into a deeper hole of debt without giving them better access to care or making it more affordable,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Sutton’s support of ObamaCare proves that she is committed to letting her party’s big-government spending habits saddle Ohio families with debt that will cripple the prosperity of generations to come.” A recent ZS Associates study exposed a key incentives program under ObamaCare as potentially wasting $20 billion a year: “While incentives can be an effective motivator in healthcare, a new study from global consulting firm ZS Associates suggests that more than 75 percent of incentives are so small or poorly communicated that they go unnoticed by providers. As a result, more than $20 billion in healthcare incentives may be wasted annually.” (“More Than $20 Billion Spent on Healthcare Incentives May Be Wasted,” The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch Blog, 5/14/2012)
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