She Gets a Raise and Bonus, Coloradans Get a New Doctor and Higher Premiums

 While Patty Fontneau enjoys being the third highest-paid director for a state-run ObamaCare exchange, Colorado taxpayers will have to spend more of their hard-earned money to keep Connect for Health Colorado and their employees afloat.

As Colorado taxpayers and families are looking for jobs and new doctors, the Connect for Health Colorado board members voted to give Patty Fontneau, CEO, a $14,000 bonus and a 2.5 percent cost of living raise for her “incredible job”. Patty’s “incredible” work includes being 10,000 enrollees short of the amount needed for the ObamaCare exchange site to be self-sustainable once the federal grants run out at the end of this year.

In order to stay afloat, Connect for Health Colorado will have to increase its 1.4 percent “user-fee” for those who buy policies through the exchange site or charge a fee on all insurance holders. In addition to spending money on repairing HealthCare.gov, Colorado taxpayers will have to spend $13 million in order for Connect for Health Colorado to survive past this year. This fall, Colorado voters will let their frustrations with ObamaCare be heard by electing Republican leaders to Congress who will repeal this expensive and flawed law.

From The Daily Caller:

“It is absolutely unacceptable that Connect for Health is proposing huge user fees to Coloradans who are already paying too much under the president’s health care law, while handing out cash to their own executives,” Gardner wrote in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“In fact, I introduced legislation last December that would prevent this from happening,” he continued. “Federal grant funds, designated for establishing state-run exchanges, should not be doled out to state exchange chief executives. Connect for Health Colorado simply isn’t working with the best interest of Colorado in mind.”