Is Your State Suing Over ObamaCare, Real Cost of Obesity, and Robot Controlled By Rat Brain
Does your state have a lawsuit challenging ObamaCare? Find out at this web site.
If you are assigned to a Medicare Accountable Health organization (ACO), will you be able to opt out of it? Some in Washington, say “no.”
Robot controlled by a rat brain. Video. (HT to Marginal Revolution)
I would love to control a robot with my brain!
About obesity: It’s not a big shock. It’s easy to imagine that someone with weight-related health issues would cost more for employers.
On ACOs, I think there is reason for worry. If people can see other doctors (outside the ACO) the entire model breaks down.
If your state isn’t suing, it should be.
I wonder if an employer accused of bias against obese job applicants could use that study (and others like it) as a defense?
The ACA will allow for discrimination in premiums based on participation in wellness programs. I think current law allows a 20% difference in employee contribution baseds on workplace wellness participation. The new law will increase this to 30%.
Although we are known as the “Free State,” my state of Maryland is one of the few states not suing. I’m sure George Calvert (who founded Maryland Colony on the basis of freedom and liberty) is rolling over in his grave.
However, rather than suing the federal government over Obamacare, I’m becoming more and more convinced that 3/4ths of the states ought to invoke an Article V Constitutional Convention and begin passing Constitutional amendments on balanced budgets, federalism, limited taxes and limited regulation.
I agree that the robot acted like a rodent. But I’m not sure what we have learned here.