Healthcare Reform WILL Raise Costs, Supressed HHS Report Said

Obama's Health and Human Services office recently admitted that they received a report from Medicare's Office of the Actuary days before the passage of the Health Care Reform package, clearly stating that the bill would raise health care costs and premiums. HHS Sec. Sibelius' office admits that they suppressed the the report so that the health care bill could pass.

This means that Obama's administration knew that their health care bill would raise costs and consumer premiums and knowingly lied when they claimed it would cut costs.

From American Spectator:

The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama's health care "reform" law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius's staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.

"The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the vote," says an HHS source. "Which is actually the point of having a review like this, you would think."

The analysis, performed by Medicare's Office of the Actuary, which in the past has been identified as a "nonpolitical" office, set off alarm bells when submitted. "We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff," says the HHS staffer, "and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary's office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report."

In the end, the report was released several weeks after the vote -- the review by the secretary's office reportedly took less than three days -- and bore a note that the analysis was not the official position of the Obama administration.