HHS secretary brochure to elderly about Obamacare like telling Jews in WWII to take a shower

GAO Finds Sebelius Misleading Taxpayers on Health Reform

by Elizabeth MacDonald

The Government Accountability Office says a Medicare mailer sent out by Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, to Medicare recipients on the new health-care law isn’t accurate.

In fact, according to the GAO, the brochure, which cost $18 million in taxpayer dollars to publish and emanated from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, presented a view of the health reform law that is “not universally shared,” that it “overstated the benefits” of health reform,” and that it failed to note the possibility of less generous Medicare benefits and higher costs.

While the GAO cleared the administration of putting together a purely partisan or propagandizing brochure, it was nonetheless critical of its content.

Is this Sebelius brochure good use of nearly $20 million in taxpayer money?