(CNSNews.com) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted at a House hearing last week that $500 billion in Medicare cuts contained in the Democrats’ health care law is being counted in two ways: both to shore up Medicare and to fund health-care reform.

Sebelius made the admission during questioning by Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on March 3.

Shimkus noted that the Obama administration’s chief actuary for Medicare, Richard Foster, has said that the administration cannot simultaneously bolster Medicare and fund health-care reform without adding to the deficit...