Posted on 01/02/2011 7:10:26 AM PST by gusopol3
Mark Pauly, a health economist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, said that requirement could reduce competition by forcing smaller insurers to stop selling in the individual market, where the standard will be hardest to meet.
As the Obama administration introduces various provisions of the bill, Congress is gearing up for heated arguments fueled by newly elected Republicans who campaigned on a promise to "repeal and replace."
One battleground could be the $20 billion still needed to implement the overhaul.
Come 2014, everyone will be required to attach proof of health insurance to tax filings. The IRS will collect and process those forms. Starting in 2016, it will levy fines on the uninsured.
The agency needs up to $10 billion to put that system in place, and the money has not been allocated, according to a Congressional Budget Office report. The Department of Health and Human Services needs a similar amount to make changes to the programs it oversees, including Medicare and Medicaid.
The agencies need that money for the "bureaucratic legwork" of putting the law into action, said Robert I. Field, a professor of law and health management and policy at Drexel University. If Republicans block it, "that will force Democrats to fight back because it will jeopardize the whole law," he said.
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the benchmark was set at 85%, because at 90%, health insurers become "regulated public utilities" according to a health care maven that Rick Santorum had on Bill Bennett's show last week. Sorry I don't have his name or a website citation.
I say let it run it’s course....let the new laws slowly erode what is left of this economy and then we revolt.
Abolish and replace. 1776 truer words never spoken again......
Because filing your income tax return is still too simple and uncomplicated...
Regards,
You notice all of a sudden the Dummies are rolling out UNKNOWN faceless Commentators on HCR. Seems no one believes the USUAL suspects.
Memo to WH: Using a new name/face to spew the same lies will not change the fate of Obamacare: REPEAL
Good luck with it. The GOP House is simply not going to appropriate the money. As it stands, the machinery of Obamacare is going to be defunded if nothing else. And Senate Democrats have to decide whether they want to have that political albatross hanging around their necks come 2012.
Bring it on!!!!
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