Archive for October, 2009
I’m passing along a recipe that is ANCIENT. Literally – the oldest version of which I’m aware (though not called armored) is from the 1400s. It and variations of it are a staple of a group to which I used to belong – the Society for Creative Anachronism.
This is the “turnips for those [...]
We all have them. We’ll argue positions using standards, and then violate those standards when arguing other positions. For example you’ll see an insistence on historical basis, data and scientific analysis for Global Climate Change, then a dismissal of historical basis and data on economic stimulus.
It’s annoying. What really rather frightens me [...]
I know I’ve ranted on this before, but I’ll do it again – sideways, this time.
My daughter is thinking she’ll want to go ROTC. She’s got a preference for service but will go to the highest on the list that will take her. The knock-off problem is her medical condition – it’s one [...]
Yay, three subtitles to this title. That said these are all three at least notionally ‘big’ deals.
The first of the three is the exchange; more fully the Health Insurance Exchange.
The very first thing in the line is a description of what this is. Unfortunately it’s legalistic speak, so bear with me while [...]
Subtitle E, and a mix of boilerplate and some real kickers. Let’s get the boilerplate out of the way first.
This bill doesn’t supercede Public Health Services Act, Employee retirement Security Act, or state law except where specifically identified as doing so by the commissioner. Except where specified (such as age) no discrimination in [...]
Subtitle E – governance. It is entirely about setting up the new administration. You’ve noticed the word “commissioner” before? Here’s where that comes into play.
The act creates the Health Choice Administration. You can save yourself a lot of time by realizing it’s extremely similar to the Social Security Administration or Government [...]
Actually it’s 233 and 234. 234 first: Non-exchange plans are not required to do any of this except as specifically required by HHS rules.
233 is a transparency rule, and whatever else is going on it’s also going to make the non-exchange plans have problems UNLESS they participate in this stuff. See, exchange participating [...]
This is slightly scrambled because 231 deserves a lot of looking. The remainder of the Consumer Protection section (subtitle D of Title 2) is darn near boilerplate. That is, it’s pretty much what you see all the time.
SecHHS will ensure that all the Qualified Health Benefits Plans (QHBP) remain above board in marketing [...]
Woke up and realized the preceding posts are monsters even for me. Further, while I read really, really fast my typing skills are not keeping up. Finally, even though I’m a lot shorter than the bill there’s no way the preceding method is going to help ANYONE find what the bill says. [...]
I think some of you are getting me by RSS. If you want to save some pain you can kill these long House health care bill posts and just jump to the shortcut when ready. Over on the right side of the site is a page (Longer Term Excursions) called “House Health Care [...]
