OBAMACARE FUN FACT #4: With an out-of-town trip and a editor’s deadline, it’s been a few days since I shared any Obamacare Fun Facts. Now, I’m back at my desk, with the giant 2-volume bill on my desk, so I’m ready to start posting them again. Here we go, fun fact #4:
$1.25 billion– yes, that’s “billion” with a “b”– for “centers of excellence for depression.“ [section 10410 of the Affordable Care Act] These centers will engage in research and treatment of depression.
Wow– really? $1.25 BILLION to universities and other entities to do something–treat and conduct research on depression–that they already have every incentive in the world to do? Indeed, there’s already a National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC)–consisting of 21 large institutions–that has functionally being doing this type of work since 2007.
What a boondoggle. Makes me depressed. Think I can get a grant?
Posted at 4:44 pm by Elizabeth Price Foley
Foley’s been guest blogging over at InstaPundit and has put up some great stuff.Don’t miss her dissection of the Great One’s “explanation” of high gasoline prices: “gas was cheap when I took office because that ol’ debbil’ Bush had us in a recession and now they’re twice as high because my economic plans have lifted us into the greatest recovery since my namesake rose up from the tomb”.
At least, I think that’s what he said. We have two choices, both bad: either he’s lying ,or he actually has no grasp of basic economic laws. Or both, of course.