Posted on 03/01/2013 2:36:25 PM PST by Sub-Driver
More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released By Megan R. Wilson - 03/01/13 12:37 PM ET
The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act.
The four rules, which are scheduled for publication in mid-March, finalize both major and minor parts of the healthcare reform law that Congress passed in 2010.
Three of the regulations are final and roll out the multistate healthcare exchanges and reforms to the insurance market, including provisions to encourage cost-sharing, stabilize health insurance premiums and prevent providers from denying coverage.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said the rules would “help to ensure that every American has access to high-quality, affordable health insurance.”
The rules will become effective on May 11, and HHS will take comments on an interim final regulation regarding cost-savings programs and government risk pooling for 60 days after those rules are published.
The other rule is a proposal to implement the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), making it effective on Jan. 1, 2015.
The change in the effective date is due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services receiving comments that warned of the difficulties in implementing the program.
The SHOPs will be integrated into state insurance exchanges as a service to small employers that choose to join.
The program is designed to make it easier for small businesses to offer employees a range of coverage choices. Through the SHOP system, workers will be able to compare plans side-by-side, and employers will have the option of making a monthly payment to SHOP rather than multiple insurance plans.
Comments on the SHOP proposals are due by April 11.
BaraqqiCare
A jobs program for attorneys and IRS agents.
Obamacide
...and so, they cast down their rules and edicts much as a sower would, from their high place, down to where all we serfs toil. We must follow this in all its tiny detail because our Big Thinkers have Thunk Big, and prepared this for us schlubs to please snappily obey without having advised as to what it shall contain, or what things are vitally important that may differ from what The Big Thinkers have thunk for us.
Thereore, OBEY, Citizen — if you know what’s good for you.
What towering arrogance.
All you taxpayers WILL be paying for blacks, illegals, Hispanics, AIDS-infected Gays, pregnant tramps, etc. so they can have FREE Medical Care, run by the Government Elite.
You old people have to start dying earlier, so we will stop giving you any medicine.
There....that covers it.
I want a 2,000 word essay summarizing the good points of Obamacare on my desk, by Monday.
When is this bill going to stop being written?!!!
Obamacare only needs one page:
All you taxpayers WILL be paying for blacks, illegals, Hispanics, AIDS-infected Gays, pregnant tramps, etc. so they can have FREE Medical Care, run by the Government Elite.
You old people have to start dying earlier, so we will stop giving you any medicine.
There....that covers it.
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Oops, and don’t forget to add “transsexuals” to that list ... sex change operations, etc. To do so would be so heartless!!
Good points. Anyone who thinks conservatives won’t eventually have head of the line privileges at the Death Panels is kidding himself.
400-500 female and affirmative action lawyers on the gov’t tit writing these promulgations from on high. We are hyper-regulated by graduated _from_law_school idiots looking for a paycheck. Your bloodless managerial elite
I hope that there is plenty of room in heaven because there will soon be a traffic jam between here and there.
Q: Will there be a guarantee you'll be able to see a doctor in a timely manner?
A: Whoa, slow down there, Sparky, let's not get carried away here.
THAT really does cover it.
“The other rule is a proposal...”
Really?
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HEALTH ‘INSURANCE’ ANYMORE, UNDER OBAMACARE. What a farce!
Had a doctor’s appointment this morning. During the visit, my Doctor ranted against the insurance companies and their ever-changing regulations regarding prescriptions. He said they were going to force him into early retirement because it wasn’t worth the effort to keep up with the changes.
After Obamacare gets underway, he may up his early retirement even sooner.
[Obamacare may drive many doctors out of their medical practices.]
My GP of 22 years is calling it quits. And he is only 58. He refuses to be told what to do in his practice. He hates what Obama is doing to a once noble profession.
FUBO
It’s like living with a python. Each coil of the snake squeezes more life out us poor shchlubs.
And you thought it was only a matter of reading it to understand it.
Best of luck.
As the old folks are about to learn, if you want good health care, you have to pay for it. There are gonna be a lot of Takers thrown overboard when the well runs dry.
Our elected civil servants could still defund this monster.
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