Saturday, November 10, 2012

Just wondering...why after the election?

Floodgates open on new health regs...

 Margot Sanger-Katz
Updated: November 9, 2012 | 5:11 p.m.
After months of regulatory delays, the floodgates have apparently opened. The Health and Human Services Department delivered two major health reform rules to the Office of Management and Budget on Friday, the first in an anticipated stream of health regulation.
Many sources close to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told National Journal that the administration had a number of important health rules ready to go  but was holding them back until after the election to avoid a political backlash. Now that President Obama has been reelected, they predicted those rules would start emerging, and fast. The forecast is about right. We are now three days postelection.


The content of the two rules that have gone to OMB have not been made public, but both relate to the insurance exchanges that states must build to sell health plans in 2014. It is not a surprise that exchange rules came first: States must tell HHS whether they plan to build their own exchange or let the federal government do it for them by November 16, next Friday. Many state officials have been complaining that it’s tough to make that decision without more details about how the various options would work.

Comment: Is it wonder why 50% of the USA population distrusts the Administration when it is so obvious what it did re: with holding information to the public.  It is not that I believe the information should it have been released prior to the election would have made much difference.  Rather,  my Democratic friends choose not to see this action for what it is-willingness to with hold and thus deceive the very people it is meant to protect. The Democrats have failed America but its constituents willingly gloss over facts, their behavior has become so ingrained with clever word smithed posts, they have lost their inner souls of credibility. Either you know not what you have done or you have willingly sent this country in a downward spiral. Yet, what do I expect in return for these comments, not words of consolation; I will receive comments like "Why, what ever has happened to you?"  "You used to be such a moderate, the change must be due to ..."  Those who are close to me know precisely of what I write.


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