Dept of HHS-Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection (per Fed Register)

Federal Register ^ | 8-19-09

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The MEPS-IC is designed to provide data for Federal policymakers evaluating the effects of National and State health care reforms. It also provides descriptive data on the current employment-based health insurance system and data for modeling the differential impacts of proposed health policy initiatives.

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Data to be collected from each employer will include a description of the organization (e.g., size, industry) and descriptions of health insurance plans available, plan enrollments, total plan costs and costs to employees. This survey will be conducted for AHRQ by the Bureau of the Census using an annual sample of employers selected from Census Bureau lists of private sector employers and governments.

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The tentacles are growing, the socialist probing and intrusion widens. Looks like businesses as well as households will be interrogated about their healthcare stats.

"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right ...." MADNESS!

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~~ Zing ~!

[cdnerds]

why do I have a feeling this has something to do with this two part rumored bill that’s been floating around. One part through the nuclear option and the other through normal routes.... Put the lib crap through the “HHS budget”, perhaps?

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Even Politico is using Pelosi's haggiest of pics .. LOL

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Pelosi: No bill without public option

Foreshadowing a House-Senate showdown, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday there is "no way" the House can pass a health care bill without a government-run insurance option.

Speaking at a news conference in San Francisco, Pelosi told reporters that a public option will "keep insurance companies honest."

“There’s no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option,” the California Democrat said, according to wire reports. "Unless someone comes up with a better idea, that's how we're going forth in the House."

Pelosi reportedly added: "If someone can come up with a better idea, let them put it on the table, we haven't heard that yet. ... So we're fighting very hard for the public option."

Obama on Thursday told liberal activists and a conservative talk show host that he continues to support a public option, but said it was only a piece of a broader health reform package and continues to signal that it's not a make-or-break issue for him.

Meantime, the Senate seems likely to drop the controversial plan from any bill it proposes. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-S.D.), a key negotiator on the Finance Committee, has emphatically said there aren't enough votes in the Senate to approve a bill with a government-run option.

"It's very clear that there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option," Conrad said Thursday on Fox Business Network.

Who will win this game of chicken?

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I put NOTHING past these mobsters in Congress
and the White House .. nothing.

If the Pubbies don’t hold fast on this,
our best days are truly over .. 233 years
of blood, sweat, toil, courage, sacrifice
and valor .. shot to hell.

[pissant]

We need to eliminate whole swaths of the FedGov, starting with the worthless maggots at HHS

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Federal Register showing all government departmental
actions for searching

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[Califreak]

>We need to eliminate whole swaths of the FedGov<

Wasn’t congress only supposed to meet once or twice a year per the founders?

I agree.

Government needs to be downsized almost into non-existence.

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Government actions posted in the Federal Register 8-20-09

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

[Califreak]

I know I’ll have a heart attack if I look too long.

Thanks for the link.

[mojitojoe]

That handful of people in DC cannot rule over 300 million. If we lose the Republic we have only ourselves to blame.

[P.O.E.]

Your paperz please!

[musicman]

bookmark

[hoosiermama]

Just finished reading Beck’s COMMON SENSE.....It’s time to draw the line in the sand. How on this one?

[EBH]

It is coming at us in parts already.

There was a mandate in the stimulus bill.

There was probably something in the big budget bill etc.

Some authorization in that bill over there.

Quick, quick did you look in the Agriculture Bill...catch that, did you see it, there it went, here it comes!

First it was earmarks in the bills. Now we see that the ability for congress people to add amendments etc. is also a tactic to install their agenda. Bit by bit by painful bite.

[F. dAnconia]

Data collection for the MEPS-IC takes place in three phases at each sample establishment:

- prescreening interview, - questionnaire mailout, = and nonresponse follow-up.

nonresponse follow-up? Hmmmm....wonder what they may involve.

[Rapscallion]

The Obama adminstration is BS

[meyer]

nonresponse follow-up? Hmmmm....wonder what they may involve.

Depends on whether the thugs cross the threshold or not...

[silent_jonny]

Ahhh!

I'm awake now, LOL

[Faith]

Wasn’t congress only supposed to meet once or twice a year per the founders?

America's best days are when the Congress is not in session. Bring them in for a two-week period in January and again in July. No bills can be passed during the session they are introduced. America will be a better place. WE ARE OVER-GOVERNED!!!