Now let's hope she follows through. At least a billion dollars in federal funds have gone to states with failed Obamacare exchanges. Health and Human Services nominee Sylvia Matthews Burwell promised that she would use every means at her disposal to recover "misspent" funds. Politico: “Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer,” Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Wednesday in her confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Burwell has broad support among Democrats and the backing of some prominent Republicans, such as Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John McCain of Arizona, both of whom testified on her behalf. Her confirmation seems all but locked up, although Republicans still used the hearing to express their continued opposition to the health care law. Republicans quizzed Burwell on how many of the people who enrolled under...(Read Full Post)