Essential Health Benefits Package

Ten Reasons ObamaCare is a Government Takeover of Health Care 0
- October 17, 2012
Some argue that ObamaCare isn’t a government takeover of health care. Here are ten reasons why it is: Continue reading →
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ObamaCare’s ‘Essential Health Benefits’: Few States Implement, HHS ‘Is in Clear Violation of the Law’0
- October 15, 2012
U.S. Health and Human Services flouts federal law in its attempt to have states define “essential health benefits.” Continue reading →
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Feds won’t add any insurance coverage mandates in exchanges – for now 0
- December 19, 2011
“Insurance providers will not have to offer any new health benefits beyond what the state of Colorado already mandates … in order to sell policies in health benefits exchanges, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced.” This won’t be a “race to the bottom,” contrary to critics. Continue reading →
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Authorities to decide what health plans in “exchanges” cover, not a freed market 0
- December 13, 2011
The political process for controlling health plans is akin to having the FCC decide what features cell phone plans should cover. Surely there would be groups pushing to ban, say, plans that lack unlimited text messaging. This would increase the price of all plans, even for those who never text.

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The “Essential Health Benefits Package”: disease constituencies clamor to make it huge 0
- December 1, 2011
Paul Hsieh, MD describes how interest groups are clamoring to have government require all legal health plans include certain mandated benefits, hence driving up the costs of the most basic health plans and requiring you to buy a plan with benefits you may neither want or need. Continue reading →
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