Kathleen Sebelius admits the administration is double counting on Obamacare to hide the impact on the federal deficit

  Kathleen Sebelius admitted during testimony last week that the Obama regime is double counting $500 billion in Medicare cuts, and one can easily assume that this is being done in order to hide the true costs of Obamacare in a blatant attempt to bolster the claim that the healthcare reform law would not add to the deficit. It is these numbers which the CBC used when it came to the conclusion that the Obamacare law would not add to the deficit, and the numbers were purposely misleading.

  When pressed by John Shimkus–Republican from Illinois–Kathleen Sebilius had no choice but to admit the deception:

There is an issue here on the budget, because your own actuary has said, you can’t double-count,” said Shimkus. 

“Your own actuary says you can’t do both.  So, my simple question — I have 27 seconds left — what’s the $500 billion in cuts for? Preserving Medicare or funding the health care law?  Which is it?”

When Sebelius did not give a direct answer, Shimkus tried again: “Are you using it (the $500 billion) to save Medicare or are you using it to fund health care reform? Which one?”

“Both,” Sebelius replied.

“So you’re double counting

  When confronted on this issue–under pressure–she could not come up with a viable answer and had to admit the truth; even when told that the funds could not be counted for both Medicare savings and healthcare funding the only answer she could come up with was that the funds were being used for both.

  This is a startling admission that the Obama regime did not give the CBC the actual numbers when they studied the issue of healthcare reform before the vote was taken. In other words, the Obama regime was fudging the numbers to hide the true budget impact that Obamacare carried.

  Is any more proof needed to prove that Obamacare needs to be repealed as soon as possible? The Obama regime was engaged in the purposeful deception of the American people and of the CBC.