Health Care Reform Creates New Boards, Advisory Panels and Commissions
May 19, 2010
Sonnenschein.com
On March 23, President Obama signed H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), into law. A week later, the President signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which made certain changes to H.R. 3590. Many agencies within the Executive Branch, including HHS, CMS, the Department of Labor, and the IRS, have begun implementing the hundreds of directives and responsibilities they now face. Among the comprehensive changes impacting health care providers, employers, and individuals is the creation of several new advisory boards and panels.
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Health reform means more paperwork for small biz
BusinessBrief.com
May 12, 2010 by Jim Giuliano
Buried in the new health act is a measure mandating that you issue 1099s — lots of ‘em — to many vendors, not just contractors.
As your A/P people certainly know, a Form 1099 is used almost exclusively to document payments to contract workers. Make that it was used almost exclusively for contract workers. As of 2012, businesses will have to issue a 1099 to just about any vendor for goods or services totaling more than $600.
Consider the possibilities of how the law will work in practice:
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The Hidden Taxes of ObamaCare
Penalties on Individuals
Individuals must pay a yearly tax penalty of $695 or up to 2.5% of their annual income if they cannot prove they have purchased a government-approved health care policy.
Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms
The Hill
By Jay Heflin
May 15, 2010
The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities. Click Here to read the full article.
Texas Doctors opting out of Medicare
By TODD ACKERMAN
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
May 17, 2010, 11:02PM
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
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Why can’t you buy health insurance across state lines?
Wall Street Journal
September 15, 2009
By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO
Why hasn’t the Commerce Clause been read to allow interstate insurance sales?
Last week, I asked South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, where in the Constitution it authorizes the federal government to regulate the delivery of health care. He replied: “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do.” Then he shot back: “How about [you] show me where in the Constitution it prohibits the federal government from doing this?”
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Report says health care will cover more, cost more
Yahoo News
AP
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer – Fri Apr 23, 5:58 am ET
AP WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up. CLICK HERE to read the full article.
Legal action against ObamaCare begins
Forbes.com
By David Whelan
April 9, 2010
First came the seemingly endless health care debate. Now come years of lawsuits, as opponents of the health overhaul seek to chip away at Obamacare in the courts.
This week the federal lawsuit claiming ObamaCare is unconstitutional picked up five new state attorneys general as plaintiffs in addition to the 13 that were already on board. CLICK HERE to read the full article.
How speciality hospitals are first to fall victim to ObamaCare
How speciality hospitals are first to fall victim to ObamaCare
Forbes.com
April 5, 2010
By David Whelan
ObamaCare’s First Victim: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals.
Big community hospitals supported the president’s health overhaul. In exchange they are getting something they have desperately wanted for years: a ban on new competition.
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Doctor Shortage ALREADY Happening
Doctor Shortage ALREADY Happening
The Wall Street Journal
Medical Schools Can’t Keep Up
As Ranks of Insured Expand, Nation Faces Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years
April 12, 2010
By SUZANNE SATALINE And SHIRLEY S. WANG
The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.
Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
