EXCERPTS: The Government Accountability Office issued a report this week detailing how the Obama administration has failed to adequately document where $3.7 billion in taxpayer money was spent promoting Obamacare’s online marketplace.
“CMS’s processes are inconsistent with certain federal accounting and internal control standards,” the report states.
GAO officials reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) doesn’t properly track certain data necessary to determining whether the law is working. Part of the problem, according to GAO officials, is that CMS uses an outdated records system incapable of responding to data requests from public officials. Rather than receiving the data directly from the network, officials charged with keeping the government’s budget in check must rely on manually-produced spreadsheets that take months for CMS to prepare.
This means that government auditors tasked with determining whether Obamacare is working must do their jobs with outdated and sometimes incomplete information. READ MORE->
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- September 24, 2014 12:37 pm
