Posted on 10/20/2009 4:34:21 AM PDT by Grumpybutt
17 ‘‘SEC. 2236. FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY SECRETARY,
18 STATES, AND EXCHANGES.
19 ‘‘(a) AGREEMENTS TO PERFORM FUNCTIONS.—The
20 Secretary shall enter into an agreement with each State
21 (in this section referred to as the ‘agreement’) setting
22 forth which of the functions described in this section with
23 respect to an exchange shall be performed by the Sec24 retary, the State, or the exchange.............
O:\FRA\FRA09275.xml [file 1 of 7] S.L.C.
1 ‘‘(b) CERTIFICATION OF PLANS.—The agreement
2 shall provide for the State to establish procedures for the
3 certification, recertification, and decertification of a health
4 benefits plan as a qualified health benefits plan that meets
5 the requirements of this title for offering the plan through 6 exchanges within the State.
7 ‘‘(c) OUTREACH AND ELIGIBILITY.—The agreement
8 shall provide for the conduct of the following activities:
9 ‘‘(1) OUTREACH.
10 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The establishment
11 and carrying out of a plan to conduct outreach
12 activities to inform and educate individuals and
13 employers about the exchange, the annual open
14 enrollment periods described in subsection
15 (d)(2), and options for qualified health benefits
16 plans offered through the exchange.
17 ‘‘(B) CALL CENTERS.—The establishment
18 and maintenance of call centers to provide in
19 formation to, and answer questions from, indi
20 viduals seeking to enroll in qualified health ben
21 efit plans through an exchange, including pro
22 viding multilingual assistance and mailing of
23 relevant information to individuals based on
24 their inquiry and zip code.
I thought the "multilingual" tidbit was interesting.... Just more money to be spent. I know, I know, being nit picky about the whole this is America and we speak English thing..... /sarc
An “agreement” takes two parties... I wonder if the states get the option to disagree...
Agreement probably means signing up based on the draft document and not complaining about the final document being different....
NOT LOL!
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This is horrible. A federal government takeover if I've ever seen one.
Bad bad bad bad bad news.
Do you have a link to the bill?
Here you go:
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