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Trump’s Economic Era

Health & Human Services (HHS)

Because of Obamacare, the Health and Human
Services has an investment portfolio that includes
everything from new insurance companies to healthcare
startups in information technology. HHS already makes
more grants than all other agencies combined, and it is
the patron of health care for about 33 percent of
Americans via Medicare, Medicaid, or both.
The HHS inspector general has stated that his
team could barely monitor HHS because its staff is too
busy chasing the criminals exploiting HHS’s
incompetence. The Government Accountability Office
estimates that criminals steal about $48 billion annually
from taxpayers through entitlement fraud.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Austrians believe that long and detailed laws, like
the 2,700-page health care bill and a 2,300-page
financial reform bill, cause problems. Adding to the
confusion is the fact that a bill can be very long and
include unrelated topics. The length and complexity of
such laws are why some states have given line-item
veto power to their governors so that they can go
through a bill line by line and veto portions of it.
Congress attempted to grant this power to the president
in 1996, but in 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the
act to be unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision in Clinton v.
City of New York.

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