ObamaCare contains an ugly little secret that Owebama will cover up during his attempt to get reelected. Medicare will be gutted under ObamaCare and the gutting starts in 2013; however seniors would normally get notice of that fact by October 2012 - three weeks before the election.

Knowing seniors would take revenge at the polls, Owebama will use $8 billion in funds created for implementing ObamaCare to cover up the Medicare gutting. Health and Human Services will do this under the guise of experimentation in how to implement ObamaCare.

Obama can temporarily prop up Medicare Advantage long enough to get re-elected by exploiting an obscure bit of federal law. Under a 1967 statute, the HHS secretary can spend money without specific approval by Congress on experiments directly aimed at increasing the efficiency and economy of health services.

Past demonstration projects have studied new medical techniques or strategies aimed at improving care or reducing costs. The point is to find ways to lower the costs of Medicare by allowing medical technocrats to make efficient decisions without interference from vested interests.

Now Obama means to turn it on its head - diverting the money to a blatantly nonexperimental purpose to serve his political needs.

A Government Accounting Office report released this morning shows, quite starkly, that there simply is no experiment being conducted, just money being spent. Understandably, the GAO recommends that HHS cancel the project.

However this "fix" only lasts 1 year - just long enough to keep seniors in the dark until after the 2012 election. More smoke and mirrors (called "flexibility" when talking to the Russians) from Owebama.