Issa to issue subpoena over ObamaCare documents Republican Rep. Darrell Issa plans to press ahead with a subpoena for health department documents on a program he claims is being used to "buy" the election by hiding the effects of ObamaCare. The Department of Health and Human Services handed over reams of material just minutes before a 5 p.m. ET deadline Thursday in response to Issa's demand 24 hours earlier. However, Issa's office called the cache "embarrassing," insufficient and not responsive to the congressman's request. The subpoena is expected to go out Friday morning. "Basically somebody hit a button and said print out a bunch of spreadsheets in an illegible format," Issa told Fox News. So we will be issuing the subpoena. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee effectively is accusing the department of stringing them along for months in their request for documents about an $8 billion program that pays bonuses to Medicare Advantage plans. "It's an unbelievable abuse of power," he said Thursday. Issa said the program basically funds "what ObamaCare took away." But Issa complains the project is far more sweeping than a run-of-the-mill test program, and conveniently lasts until 2014. "This is larger than every test they've ever done at HHS combined," Issa said. Issa's committee put out a video Thursday explaining its allegations. But the department portrayed the program differently. A top official with the GAO also testified in July that he has "never encountered" a demonstration project of this size. FoxNews.com's Judson Berger and Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report.