New Rules
- HHS regulation that covers risk adjustment in the exchanges, cost-sharing limits and user fees for the federal exchanges: 373-pages.
- Office of Personnel Management rule that spells out the guidelines for the Multi-State Plan Program: 122-pages.
- Internal Revenue Service put out a rule on the Medicare payroll tax: 42-pages.
More on HHS’s impact on state insurance commissioners jobs in Politico.
Lets just make the insurance commissioner’s job harder…
The worst thing, I think, is that these regulations have been held up. You would think that they’d want to issue them as soon as possible so the bill would be a success, but bureaucracy is as bureaucracy does.
So much for simplified policies.
It’s amazing how many rules and regulations that are going to be taking place.
Health Affairs has a nice overview of some of the regulations. I recommend it to understand the changes.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2012/12/02/implementing-health-reform-benefit-and-payment-parameters-proposed-rule/
This is one of those cases where less is more…Hundreds and hundreds of pages of different policies and regulations just make it more tedious and difficult for anyone to understand them.
I have to ask: why does it require so many pages to explain what should take one page?
Well Studebaker, bureaucrats operate under the same limitations that lead to the invention of carpet-bombing.