Posted on 06/29/2012 4:44:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - Now that the Supreme Court has removed the main legal challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, policy experts question whether enough U.S. states will be ready to implement the law when it takes full effect in 2014.
HHS says that 34 states have received $850 million in grants to help plan and build the exchanges. Accepting the funds alone does not signal significant progress, however.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which tracks healthcare issues, 17 states have made no significant progress towards establishing an exchange or rejected the idea. Most of them voted for Republican candidates during the 2008 elections that brought Obama, a Democrat, to power.
Another 18 states are studying their options, leaving only 15 that have taken concrete steps to establish an exchange, Kaiser said.
Some health experts fear that many of the states holding off now will wait until the November elections in the hope Republicans will win control of the White House or Congress and repeal the law. Wisconsin Governor Rick Scott announced on Thursday that he intended to do just that and other Republican governors, including Sam Brownback of Kansas, expressed similar views.
"If states really have the will to throw themselves into this, there is time to set up an exchange. But if states are going to wait for the election, then there isn't time," said health economist Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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“Wisconsin Govenor Rick Scott”?
Massive civil disobedience would not be controlled with a measily 16,000 new IRS/Waffen SS agents. Don’t worry about ILL-ANNOY - thanks to the efforts of the minority leader of the House, Tom “Double-Cross” Cross - is already working with Crook County to expedite the implementation of KardashianCare.
Going Galt?
National Healthcare Upheld: The Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act challenge on Thursday, even though a reversal would have had little to no impact on service-connected veterans served by the Department of Veterans Affairs or on military members and retirees served by military medicine or enrolled in TRICARE. This is because your VFW led the fight back in March 2010 to get Congress to recognize all VA and Defense Department health programs as meeting minimal acceptable coverage standards as required by a proposed national healthcare bill that had failed to include VA health programs for widows and disabled children, and almost 90 percent of military TRICARE programs. With the strong support of then-House Armed Service Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), and the grassroots advocacy of thousands of VFW members and supporters, the new, more encompassing legislation quickly passed Congress and was signed into law by the president on May 27, 2010. Read the high court’s ruling at http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf.
Hmm. If thirty-four states were each to spend twenty-five million (sadly deflated) dollars, they might be able to lay the foundations for 34 buildings, *or* hire 100 each of the 4500 IRS geniuses expected to manage(!?) the ObamaCare tax. That dog wouldn’t hunt even if it had a nose. Nope, we won’t be ready in 2024, let alone 2014.
The states (with Republican Governors) must refuse to obey this stupid law. Let Obama try to cut off the states funds and the states will stop sending their tax money to DC. Lets play a little chicken with the dog eater. He can’t jail half the population(although he would like to try) and calling his hand would certainly be a constitutional crisis of heroic proportions. JMHO!
Noticed that too. Reuters ...
The very first statement of the article is false. The Supreme Court decision didn’t “remove” the main legal challenge to Obamacare, they affirmed it. It’s a tax, and as such gets punted back to the legislature.
Look up the old Kaiser Permanente prepaid health coverage. It was started by Henry Kaiser in the Oakland/Richmond CA area to provide health coverage to Kaiser employees who were working in the ship yards building Liberty ships and such for the WWII effort. There was a hospital and you had to go to that hospital or you were on your own. If you needed to go to a doctor there was a clinic and you waited in line and never got to establish a relationship with a single doctor. If you needed a specialist you had to be referred by a clinic doctor who may have only seen you once. This Kaiser coverage spread all over California and at least until the 1990s it was relatively similar until they decided they wanted to include rural employee groups which forced them to be more flexible about the clinic/hospital concept.
I’m wondering if Obamacare was helped along by the Kaiser concept. I’m not sure if the Kaiser who has contributed much to Obama is part of the same Kaiser family but I would not be at all surprised, especially with the heavy union involvement of Kaiser Permanente.
http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/aboutkp/historyofkp.html
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