Your Obamacare minute, part one

From page 312 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act... under the headings of:

PART 3—ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PATIENT CARE MODELS

SEC. 3021. ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

INNOVATION WITHIN CMS.

(a) IN GENERAL.— Title XI of the Social Security Act is amended

by inserting after section 1115 the following new section:

‘CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID INNOVATION'

Read way, way, way down many pages and you get to a subheading titled:

  (f) FUNDING.—
  (1) IN GENERAL.—There are appropriated, from amounts
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—
  (A) $5,000,000 for the design, implementation, and
evaluation of models under subsection (b) for fiscal year
2010;
  (B) $10,000,000,000 for the activities initiated under
this section for the period of fiscal years 2011 through
2019; and
  (C) the amount described in subparagraph (B) for the
activities initiated under this section for each subsequent
10-year fiscal period (beginning with the 10-year fiscal period
beginning with fiscal year 2020).

Amounts appropriated under the preceding sentence shall remain

available until expended.

Better get back to work, you have a program to fund.