I could certainly see a royal bureaucratic goofup turning somebody’s bank account upside down.
But I’m not sure this is unlike agreements we make with credit card companies to accept payments over the internet. They contain boilerplate “you authorize us to transfer money from your bank account” language too. The question is how much and under what circumstances. Is this a swift new way of recouping Medicaid payments without due process? Or is this a basis for making direct payments to new gummit health plans?
It is all that you mentioned and more. Pages 57-59 Section 163: IN lines 18/19 states Secretary as “deemed necessary electronic transferss”, which could be anything, although it is related to Healthcare.
Now has the Gov’t ever taken from people for wrong reasons, or made mistakes, or just arbitrarily made a decision that turns out to be bogus? Sure they have, and I don’t want my bank account available to their mistakes. Do you?
PDF copy, page numbers at top:
http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf