FDA Commish Hamburg Calls FDA "A Bargain For Taxpayers"

You're kidding us, Right?

Fierce Medical Devices has;
Hamburg: FDA Is A Bargain For Taxpayers
April 19, 2013 | By Damian Garde


The FDA wants about $4.7 billion in the next fiscal year, a sum Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said is hardly burdensome considering all the agency does for taxpayers.

Speaking to a Senate appropriations subcommittee Thursday, Hamburg pointed out that 94% of the agency's $821 million requested increase over fiscal 2012 funding would be covered by user fees, paid by companies seeking FDA approval, Reuters reports.

"FDA is a true bargain among federal agencies," Hamburg said. "Americans each pay about $8 a year for FDA's appropriations."

The FDA wants an 11% increase for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, asking for $870 million to follow through on its promise to speed up PMA and 510(k) turnaround times, planning to add 80 full-time-equivalent positions to meet its goals. If it gets the money it wants, the FDA says it will improve approval decision times by 20% and rule on clearances 3% faster.

But all of that hangs in limbo if Congress can't agree on a budget and halt automatic sequestration cuts, which bar the agency from touching $83 million in user fees Hamburg said it needs to implement its plan. President Barack Obama signed a bill that would effectively double user fees for devicemakers over 5 years, but the prolonged congressional squabble over a budget has put their use on hold, irking industry and agency alike.

Hamburg is urging Congress to exempt user fees from the sequester, warning that the FDA won't be able to keep its promises to drug and device companies without the added funds.
- read the Reuters news

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Thank You Fierce Medical Devices and Mr Garde


A Bargain For Taxpayers, just like her Boss.

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Huge ObamaCare Sales Force To Get $20 To $48 an Hr. To Work As 'Navigators'

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Obama Admin To Pay Union Workers, Community Activists Up To $48 An Hour TYo Work As Obamacare Navigators

California alone wants 21,000 “navigators,” so yes, this is going to cost an obscene amount of money.

Via Washington Secrets:

Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as “navigators” to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 will be paid up to $48 an hour, more than six times the federal minimum wage of $7.25, according to new regulations issued Wednesday.
The 63-page rule covering navigators, drawn up by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, also said the government will provide free translators for those not fluent in English — no matter what their native language is. [...]
It is still not clear how many navigators will be required. California, however, provides a hint. It wants 21,000.
The rules allow navigators to come from the ranks of unions, health providers and community action groups such as ACORN and Planned Parenthood. They are required to provide unbiased advice.
Keep reading…

Thank Zip, Wash Examiner, and Mr Bedard

As Poll after Poll shows support for ObamaCare's nation wrecking power grab diminishing almost hourly, the Obama Administration will be spending even More Public Monies which we Don't Have, to prop it up.

And, since it's done Such a bang up job already of Destroying the Private Sector Jobs which create those Public Monies, there will be No Shortage of unemployed people rushing to play along as 'Navigators' at, at Least $20 an Hr. 

So, . . .  to Each and Every one of America's remaining True Believers we'd like to Award this jpg of the 'Soon to be Coveted' Golden Goebbels Award, . . . . because when the Obama Plan finally comes to full fruition, there will be a 'Special Place' for you who Helped to make it all come true, by bringing it All, . . . down.

For more photoshopped coverage of the JOEY, and you can draw your own conclusions of Who owns a better Current Truth on this one, the Photoshops or the people who Inspired them:

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JOEY: Golden Goebbels Award For Outstanding Government Propaganda

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