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| Feds approve cost controls for Obamacare med procedures. |
| 2014-05-18 |
| [PBS] WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has given the go-ahead for insurers and employers to use a new cost-control strategy that puts a hard dollar limit on what health plans pay for some expensive procedures, such as knee and hip replacements. The elderly don't require mobility. Mobility and exercise extend life expectancy and create a pathway for future claims. Some experts worry that such a move would surprise patients who pick more expensive hospitals. The cost difference would leave them with big medical bills that they'd have to pay themselves. Or more likely forego the procedure, which is the gov't objective. That could undercut key financial protections in President Barack Obama's health care law that apply not just to the new health insurance exchanges, but to most job-based coverage as well. But of course! The dollar caps will no doubt catch on quickly. Others say it's a valuable tool to reduce costs and help check premiums. Others say it's Some federal regulators appear to be concerned. A recent administration policy ruling went to unusual lengths, acknowledging that the cost-control strategy "may be a subterfuge" for "otherwise prohibited limitations on coverage." HELLO! The entire Obama regime is a case study in "subterfuge." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Cost controls, works every time. Just look at the post office. Um, wait.... |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-05-18 14:27 |
| #6 And so it begin, Mdicin is too chap. the Government said so. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-05-18 13:34 |
| #5 Hey, Cuban medical care is supposed to be great and it's only "90 miles to freedom" from O'care. Partial lifting of sanctions fits right in with the goals of this clique. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-05-18 11:46 |
| #4 Realestate prices just inside Mexico is going to go up, when doctors start setting up shop about 10 feet across the border to have the liberty of administering traditional American health care to people in the Southern States. Medical ships 12 miles out in international waters would be a great idea as well. |
| Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-18 11:30 |
| #3 Trying to implement death panels without actually calling it a death panel? |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-05-18 10:55 |
| #2 Of course, the upper 5 percent will simply travel someplace else to get care that they legislatively pushed to make sure the rest of the peons can't get, all in the name of the lower 20 percent. The value of status is having something others can not. If you have to rig the system so that they can't, so be it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-05-18 08:57 |
| #1 knee and hip replacements What about, ummm...gender reassignment or methadone addiction or maybe brain wipes? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-05-18 01:25 |