townhall
Andrew Quinlan
Posted: Feb 13, 2018 12:01 AM
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https://townhall.com/columnists/andrewquinlan/2018/02/13/deep-state-year-10-of-the-obama-administration-at-hhs-n2448025Somewhere, Kathleen Sebelius is smiling.
When Republicans failed in their efforts to repeal Obamacare, we were assured that Trump appointees would be working furiously to stop the law's worst impacts at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Instead, we are witnessing a rout by the "deep state" that is working overtime to protect—and even expand—Obama's namesake law.
"In a notable back flip," a recent story in the New York Times begins, "the Trump administration has decided that maybe the Obama administration was right in its efforts to change the way doctors and hospitals are paid under Medicare."
CMS pays out over 1 Trillion dollars a year.
Cleaning it up could easily require a full time 2nd President's 24/7 attention.
