HHS Fires Back At McConnell For Claiming O'Care Funds Could Be Used On Zika
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published AUGUST 20, 2016, 10:47 AM EDT
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fired back at the suggestion by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that the agency was wasting money on Obamacare outreach that could be used on Zika funding.
"The last person who should criticize HHS for not being focused on Zika is the Senate Republican leader who has refused to compromise in order to get a clean, bipartisan funding bill to the President’s desk," an HHS spokesperson said in a statement to TPM Friday evening. The statement was in response to a letter McConnell sent to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell Friday hounding her on reports of a new outreach campaign for Obamacare enrollment.
In the letter, McConnell demanded details of an outreach campaign to boost Obamacare enrollment reported by the New York Times, while asking why the agency "believes that such funds would be better spent propping up the failed Obamacare exchanges than other important public health priorities - such as preventing the spread of Zika."
According to the HHS, Affordable Care Act outreach is funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The agency said the funding cannot be used on Zika-related activities, particularly as the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health are not permitted to dip into CMS' funds.
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check ($225,000 a year) and he's on vacation again right along with his buddy Paul (Eddie Munster) Ryan and the gang, and if he "lets" his staff have health care, you know getting shots, health screening and such, but when it comes to "us" to be protected his attitude is FU. 
I tell you what why doesn't he and others of his ilk take a f***ing pay cut to fund the program, because apparently we the taxpayers are not getting our monies worth from the republicans, they like to play the smoke and mirrors game, or better yet rob from peter to pay for paul. 
And to add a side note to this hypocrite and his leader of his party (herr drumpfster) is in hock for 650 million in debt because they (Chinese) own the paper on the Avenues of America building in NY, do you think if, and this is a big if, he got into power do you think they might sell off the CMS building-------------just a thought
Honk--------------------for a political revolution "Our Revolution"
Yet "laws" apparently don't apply to the legislators who create them.
