Apparently no one at the Whitehouse has read the bill. Why read it anyway? DHS, Kathleen Sebelius, just issues new regulations. What am I missing? Why pass a bill at all if a Czar merely does as she chooses. We can look forward to lots of surprises. It’s going to be the thousands of pages of Regs to do the implementation that will be the killer. No recourse unless the congress reverses anyone of them. “Code of Federal Regulations” Take a look sometime: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&tpl=%2Findex.tpl The agency posts for comments, then it is the law of the land
This is a patient’s bill of rights on steroids,” the president said Friday at George Mason University in Virginia. “Starting this year, thousands of uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions will be able to purchase health insurance, some for the very first time. Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”
Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.
- Late Tuesday, the administration said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would try to resolve the situation by issuing new regulations.
Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That’s the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63274
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