Posted on 04/18/2010 10:30:21 AM PDT by SmartInsight
Mindful that the new health care law’s ability to slow rising medical costs will depend to a great extent on how it is put in effect, President Obama is assembling a high-level team to carry out key elements of the overhaul and is considering moving faster than the law requires to put them into action.
Sebelius has begun work on the first of what will be numerous regulations for Medicare, Medicaid and private health care providers.
The secretary can expand successful ideas nationwide without Congress's permission.
Mr. Obama, whose legacy will be shaped less by the law's passage than by how well it works, has begun marshaling what is "essentially the biggest transformation of government since World War II,"...
But Mr. Obama has urged advisers to consider moving sooner to set up an Independent Payment Advisory Board for controlling Medicare spending. Some administration officials, however, fear that creating the board much before 2014 could prematurely make it a target for attacks of the "death panel" sort, leaving it politically vulnerable before its powers to impose changes take effect.
The board was a top priority for Mr. Obama during the long legislative battle.
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Ms. Sebelius has begun work on the first of what will be numerous regulations for Medicare, Medicaid and private health care providers. Within her department, she has reorganized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to make room for an innovation center intended to test ways of reimbursing providers that could reduce spending while improving patient care.
The secretary can expand successful ideas nationwide without Congress’s permission...
Good thing that it’s “not a government takeover.”
November can’t come soon enough, Jim.... *sigh*
“After Health Care Passage, Obama Pushes to Get It Rolling - “faster than the law requires”
If only Obama could be (or could have been) that fast with:
-Developing a war plan for Afghanistan (of course, what’s six months when you’re not the one who’s putting your life on the line 24-7 over there?)
-Forming the High Risk Threat Assessment Team (or whatever it is supposed to be called) that was supposed to be available for interrogating guys like The Underwear Bomber. A team which, IIRC, still exists only on paper.
-Deciding where KSM’s trial is actually going to be held.
-Asking Eric Holder why the Justice Department dropped a voter intimidation case it had already won against the New Black Panthers.
Sorry Barry. Even you can’t put this in effect before the new Congress takes control next year.
He wants to get as much in place as he can before the November elections. To make it as difficult as possible to deconstruct. Lord, give us the strength to stay focused until November.
We knew this was coming. The nanny-staters are screaming for thier free HC NOW.
He is just trying to shut them up before they turn violent.
Pbbbbbbt! Yeah. Let that thought comfort you while your treatment "options" are being weighed by The Great and Wonderful Ob's health care bureaucrats.
The secretary can expand successful ideas nationwide without Congress’s permission...
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Well, of course. The Dear Leader has decreed it.
Obama is an idiot.
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If only it was that he doesn’t know better. His central goal is to collapse our economy; all of these bankrupting policies are designed to bring us down.
Anyone think the premeditated Genocide of the Elderly is his top priority???
UUU
He needs to get pesky Boomers like me out of the way, anyway, as we are the last cohort that actually learned about the Constitution and, therefore, show up at Tea Parties in big numbers.
Obama needs to get this moving so he can keep votes in November for the democraps. Else they will lose big time.
The leftist controlled media will continue to present the Tea Party movement as a fringe extremist group . The beloved Clintonista will continue to rap " the extremist tea party is exaggerating" as the drum beat of "Change for the better" keeps time from the MSM
I forgot to add: The republican eunuchs in congress will continue to stay in line and go along for their appeasement hayride because they are part of "the system" that got us in this mess to begin with
Yet, the "Republican eunuchs" have mounted a unanimous to near-unanimous front against each and every Democrat initiative -- killing some and delaying others.
How does that amount to "appeasement"?
Unless you're a troll, of course...
Although I would like to commend the Republican party for standing up against Obama care I am skeptical and believe it is more to please their lobbyists than to return the constitution to power
Now I live in the South, and we seem to be a bit more clear-thinking down here, but I don’t know ONE doctor who supports this bill, and I know a bunch of docs.
This is crazy!
My doctor told that if this is implemented, he is closing.
I really like him. Shame on the Rats.
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