Feds to design health insurance for the masses
Health Friday, October 7th, 2011
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, AP
WASHINGTON – The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation’s health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Friday.
The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines for deciding what to include in the new “essential benefits package,” and how to keep it affordable for small businesses and taxpayers, as well as scientifically up to date.
The advisers recommended that the package be built on mid-tier health plans currently offered by small employers, expanded to include certain services such as mental health, and squeezed into a budget. They did not spell out a list of services to cover, but they did say that treatments should be cost-effective.
Until now, designing benefits has been the job of insurers, employers and states. But the new health care law requires insurance companies to provide at least the federally approved package if they want to sell to small businesses, families and individuals through new state markets set to open in 2014.
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Look to see just who these people at the “Institute of Medicine” are:
http://www.iom.edu/About-IOM/Leadership-Staff.aspx
http://www.iom.edu/About-IOM/~/media/Files/About%20the%20IOM/9-2011orgchart.
They are Harvard educated liberal, policy wonks who couldn’t make a paycheck by taking care of patients. So they become Obama/Pelosi butt boys, hiding their true biases and hoodwink the “sheeple” that they are objective consultants to the US government.
Watch out America, Socialism’s chickens are coming home to roost if you make the SAME mistake in 2012 that you did in 2008 !
A doctor who knows what he’s talking about ——