Posted on 03/14/2014 5:12:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration is requiring health plans in Obamacare insurance marketplaces to include a more robust offering of care providers in 2015 after some early backlash over limited networks in the health care law's first year.
Health plans selling on the federal marketplaces in 2015 must include 30 percent of area "essential community providers," which are usually health centers and other hospitals serving mostly low-income patients. That's up from a 20 percent requirement in 2014, the first year of expanded overage under the health care law.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the marketplaces, will also take a much more active role in reviewing health plan networks. CMS, which outlined the new standards in a Friday night letter to insurers, will evaluate whether the plans include enough access to hospitals, primary care doctors, mental health providers and oncologists. The updated standards came after a Friday interview in which President Barack Obama acknowledged that pressure to keep down costs could mean consumers may not have access to their choice of doctor.
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Article V.
Impeachment. Way over due.
“Serving low income”....and would you like that translated or would someone scream racist?
So what are they going to do? Force doctors to participate at the point of a gun?
Can we impeach Dear Leader yet?
Impeachment, followed by what?
“What is different now is the Affordable Care Act marks the first time that federal law requires insurance plans to offer adequate networks of doctors
So what are they going to do? Force doctors to participate at the point of a gun?
**Yep, pretty much..we all saw this coming when this cluster first passed. They will force them, somehow - someway. At least we have Boehner, McConnell & crew to put a stop to this tyranny..oh wait
Mussolini, Hitler would be proud.
The “settled law” of the land has new regulations issued by Dear Dictator every day.
Exit insurance companies stage left.
When I worked in China 38 years ago, my interpreter was a magnificent philharmonic concert violinist. The State said “No you’re not. You’re now an interpreter” and, et voilà, he was an interpreter.
The State can wish anything it wants into existence. It knows what is best for us.
Impeach the illegal alien bastard, he can’t order a damn thing other than to uphold the law passed and signed into law!
More impeachment, until one sticks.
Biden as the court jester is an insult to courts jesters throughout time.
Interesting about the violinist.
“So what are they going to do? Force doctors to participate at the point of a gun?”
Dr. Zhivago.
Obama should be impeached monthly. Keep sending Articles of impeachment to the Senate until that dingbat Harry Reid explodes.
Thanks to people like you and FR, it's not over yet. I haven't given up.
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