Two Tracks of ObamaCare

While the White House highlights their favorite parts of ObamaCare, the real work is being done in the depths of the federal bureaucracy. “Track two is the regulatory process, where Obamacare is sinking its roots deeper and deeper into the bureaucracy and the health sector. This is below the radar of most Americans, but the implementation rules are beginning to frighten many industry groups that thought their seat at the table would inoculate them against the wrath of the regulators. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just issued a 1,250-page proposed rule on Medicare payment policies for 2011. That follows a 121-page proposed rule limiting how companies can grandfather their employee health-insurance plans to avoid even more onerous federal mandates.”