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Officials Received Bonuses Despite Disastrous Obamacare Rollout
The Obama administration used our tax dollars to reward failure. Despite the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, officials still received hefty bonuses. Of course, the administration tried to keep this news quiet. Thank Judicial Watch for bringing it to our attention.
Government officials in charge of Obamacare’s tumultuous implementation and disastrous health exchange website quietly received tens of thousands of dollars in performance bonuses and other taxpayer-funded perks, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.
Some of the generously compensated officials have left their lucrative federal government jobs for the private sector but others remain on Uncle Sam’s payroll, a JW analysis of the records has found. Incredibly, all of them played a significant role in the healthcare law’s failures yet they were handsomely rewarded with large sums of cash and generous amounts of paid time off on the public’s dime.
For instance, Anthony Trenkle, Chief Information Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the bloated agency responsible for all things Obamacare, received four performance bonuses totaling $69,000 before resigning over the healthcare website (healthcare.gov) debacle. Not only did Trenkle fail to keep the online marketplaces up and running like he was supposed to, he also failed to implement security measures to protect consumers’ information from hackers. A Washington D.C. newspaper story reporting Trenkle’s November 2013 resignation cites a federal audit that blasts him for not sufficiently testing security measures before the website was launched, leaving people trying to enroll in new health plans vulnerable.
Another CMS official heavily involved in Obamacare, Jennifer Boulanger, received four performance awards totaling $44,476, the records show. Boulanger is the Chief of Staff in the Office of the Administrator of CMS, but she was previously the Acting Director of the CMS Office of Legislation and the Deputy Director of that same influential Medicare and Medicaid office before that. Boulanger was considered a key lobbyist for the president’s unpopular healthcare law, which is officially known as the Affordable Care Act.
Source: http://lonelyconservative.com/2014/08/officials-received-bonuses-despite-disastrous-obamacare-rollout/
