tangent4ronpaul
02-28-2011, 04:49 PM
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0228/Health-care-reform-How-big-is-Obama-s-concession
Health care reform: How big is Obama's concession?
On Monday, President Obama offered to let states design their own health systems, as long as they meet the overall goals of the national health care reform plan.
President Obama on Monday offered to let states opt out of his big health-care reform overhaul and design their own health systems, as long as they meet the overall goals of the national plan
That sounds like a big deal. Is the White House making a concession here? After all, about half the states already have sued to overturn the system critics call “Obamacare.” Many of them may try to replace Washington’s approach with health-care reforms designed closer to home.
The short answer is “yes”: Mr. Obama indeed may be ceding some ground to critics. However, the longer answer is “yes, but ..." What Obama called for Monday is not so much a change in the existing law as an acceleration of something that was going to happen already.
Last year’s health-care reform law already allows states to propose their own frameworks for care, beginning in 2017. Obama, in a speech to the National Governors Association, said that he would support changing the law to allow that to happen three years earlier, in 2014.
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The catch is that these reforms would have to provide coverage at least as comprehensive as the policies that will be offered through the exchange insurance marketplaces set up by Obama’s health law. They could not cover fewer people than the federal approach. Nor can a state's plans add to the federal deficit, according to Sebelius.
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AAAwwwww - ain't that last bit "cute": Nor can a state's plans add to the federal deficit, according to Sebelius.
Lemme see... we have a bunch of broke states, that have to insure a ton of their citizens and in exchange for doing that on the states terms (sort of - they still have to insure ppl that don't want it), they get to absorb THE ENTIRE COST! - ain't that special! I mean the Fed gvmt is broke, so any action to implement obamacare will drive up the federal deficit. hmm, wonder why they used the word deficit which is a yearly budget term before it becomes debt....
:rolleyes:
Health care reform: How big is Obama's concession?
On Monday, President Obama offered to let states design their own health systems, as long as they meet the overall goals of the national health care reform plan.
President Obama on Monday offered to let states opt out of his big health-care reform overhaul and design their own health systems, as long as they meet the overall goals of the national plan
That sounds like a big deal. Is the White House making a concession here? After all, about half the states already have sued to overturn the system critics call “Obamacare.” Many of them may try to replace Washington’s approach with health-care reforms designed closer to home.
The short answer is “yes”: Mr. Obama indeed may be ceding some ground to critics. However, the longer answer is “yes, but ..." What Obama called for Monday is not so much a change in the existing law as an acceleration of something that was going to happen already.
Last year’s health-care reform law already allows states to propose their own frameworks for care, beginning in 2017. Obama, in a speech to the National Governors Association, said that he would support changing the law to allow that to happen three years earlier, in 2014.
[...]
The catch is that these reforms would have to provide coverage at least as comprehensive as the policies that will be offered through the exchange insurance marketplaces set up by Obama’s health law. They could not cover fewer people than the federal approach. Nor can a state's plans add to the federal deficit, according to Sebelius.
[...]
AAAwwwww - ain't that last bit "cute": Nor can a state's plans add to the federal deficit, according to Sebelius.
Lemme see... we have a bunch of broke states, that have to insure a ton of their citizens and in exchange for doing that on the states terms (sort of - they still have to insure ppl that don't want it), they get to absorb THE ENTIRE COST! - ain't that special! I mean the Fed gvmt is broke, so any action to implement obamacare will drive up the federal deficit. hmm, wonder why they used the word deficit which is a yearly budget term before it becomes debt....
:rolleyes: