Gail Wilensky, former head of the Health Care Financing Administration, believes that government agencies will be overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of pages of new regulations ObamaCare instructs them to develop. “The national health reform law includes the phrase “the secretary shall” more than 1,000 times, each of which refers to a new task for the Health and Human Services secretary.”
ObamaCare was sold with rosy promises that insurers would be immediately banned from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. But that just means higher costs. “Some families might face higher insurance premiums because of a requirement in the new healthcare law that plans cover sick children, state insurance commissioners said Friday… But the new rules are leading some health plans across the country to stop issuing new child-only coverage, the state officials said. That could force parents to buy costly family coverage where in the past they could have saved money by buying separate policies for themselves and their children.”
Despite successfully passing a law beginning a government take-over of the health care sector, the Left won’t stop until they get their “public option” and then a full-blown single-payer system. “The new national health care law may represent the largest expansion in the role of government since the Great Society, but for liberal activists, it was just the appetizer. Here at the annual Netroots Nation conference for self-described progressives, organizers discussed their strategy for pushing toward their ultimate goal of a fully government-run, or single-payer, health care system.”