CCIIO to state PCIPs: Take our deal or shut down

Life and Health Pro ^ | 5/9/13 | Allison Bell

[Nachum]

States have until Friday -- May 10 -- to decide whether they want to keep their state-run Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) programs running or kill the programs and put the enrollees in the hands of the federal PCIP system.

Officials at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), the agency that oversees both the state and the federal PCIP programs, talk about the changes in a new PCIP state contract fact sheet.

CCIIO -- pronounced "Sih-Sigh-Oh" -- is an arm of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is, in turn, an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

CCIIO is asking states to accept new contract terms or shut down their PCIP programs because Congress provided only $5 billion in PCIP funding in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), and "CMS must operate the program within the fixed $5 billion PCIP program appropriation," officials said.

[Nachum]

A little taste of the Obama threats to keep an Obamacare program. They got a lot of uninsured's on the plan, then ran out of money. They states had to pay or force the ill out of the coverage.

[Slyfox]

Obamacare - Get used to it:

[Paladin2]

Looks like the draft physicals or the 60’s