Posted on 06/14/2010 3:39:13 AM PDT by Scanian
Late last week saw the first leaks of the administration's draft regulations for imple menting the ObamaCare law -- and everything is playing out just as the critics warned.
The 3,000-odd pages of legislation left most of the really important (and controversial) policy decisions to the regulations that government agencies were told to issue once the bill passed. Now that those regs are starting to take shape, it's clear that the Obama team is using its new power to exert tight control over the payment and delivery of all formerly "private" health insurance.
The ObamaCare law references the Secretary of Health and Human Services almost 2,200 times and uses the phrase "the secretary shall" more than 725. Each reference requires HHS to set new rules on medical care, giving control to an existing federal office or one of 160 new agencies that the bill created.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (who was once the Kansas state-insurance commissioner) has taken to these tasks with zeal. In some circles, she's now known as the nation's "insurance regulator in chief."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Bork Oinkbama is not an American citizen in any way, shape, or manner, and the election of 08 needs to be annulled and declared void, and the office empty.
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Bottom line: Sebelius means to dictate what your insurance plan must look like almost from day one, no matter how you get your coverage.
Indeed, the draft regs envision more than half of all policies having to change within three years — an unmistakable break with President’s Obama’s oft-repeated promise, “If people like their insurance, they will be able to keep it.”
Yet that may be the least of the broken promises.
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Ultimately, these rules force consumers to buy one of just four health policies — which vary mostly only by trading off higher co-payments for lower premiums, while offering essentially the same actual benefits. In arguing for passage of the law, ObamaCare’s defenders claimed the rules were aimed at health plans sold in the “exchanges.” Oops: Now Sebelius is applying them to employer plans. Eventually, this would force all but the very wealthiest Americans into a single government-designed insurance scheme.
Obama told you!
Obama on single payer health insurance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE
If not, a constitutional convention could turn out to be less impracticable than any alternative means of destroying this beast.
Unbelievable.
People will learn the hard way that Obama and his legislative minions have been lying from day one both knowingly and deliberately.
Get ready to to mexico for quality doctors.
bump
If a conservative Republican is elected president in 2012, and has a Republican majority in the House and Senate, they had better repeal this hellish nightmare called Obamacare.
If the Republicans refuse to do so, then they should become extinct as a political party and the TEA Party should become an actual political party to replace the late not-so-great GOP.
The GOP can start by replacing Michael Steele.
Karl Marx smiles.
Any federal version of health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not specifically list regulating health care as an enumerated power! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act!
I waiting for the outcry from AARP.
A bit off topic - but we need to make the other bumper sticker mentioned on an internet blog...
OBAMA LIED
DOLPHINS DIED
Of course you are going to lose your plan...anyone who ever thought differently must also believe in santa Clause!!
We’re F’d.
my theory is that’s why he is about to fire up a major fight over Cap n Tax. Even if he loses it will take all the eyes off of this story.
At what level will this be tyranny. I say, it is there already.
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