Health-care law faces test as regulators settle which plans must do what (Government takeover!)

washington post ^ | 5/24/2010 | David S. Hilzenrath

[tobyhill]

Now that Congress has imposed new requirements on health insurance plans, regulators are trying to resolve another big question:

Which plans must comply with the requirements?

In keeping with President Obama's promise that you can hold on to your insurance if you like it, the new law exempts existing health plans from many of its provisions. But the law leaves it to regulators to decide how much a health plan can change without giving up its grandfathered status.

In other words, when does a health plan cease to be the same health plan?

Say you get coverage through your job: Would something as small as an increase in your co-payments forfeit your health plan's exemption? Or would your employer have to do something more dramatic, such as switching from UnitedHealth to WellPoint?

The answer could test more than Obama's promise. It could determine how many Americans are affected by key elements of the new law, including provisions meant to improve coverage and protect consumers. Some consumer advocates say that grandfathering could become a giant loophole through which many health plans escape aspects of the overhaul.

[Uncle Miltie]

You can keep your health plan, but we’re forcing the Insurance Company to offer it to you for $1.00 per year.

Hooray!

[Uncle Miltie]

Oops. Change <> Charge.

[EdReform]

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[billuk1]

And 63 per cent of Americans want Obamacare repealed...
There maybe some sunshine in the future...

[Spok]

“In keeping with President Obama’s promise that you can hold on to your insurance if you like it,”

Do they really think anyone believes this? Really?

[DrC]

“Do they really think anyone believes this? Really?”

Well, they expected the sheeple to believe the bill a) will bend the cost curve; b) will reduce the deficit; c) will extend the life of Medicare; d) won’t fund abortions; and e) other similar impossible things, all before breakfast. So yes, I’m reasonably certain they are deluded enough to think at least some people believe this (Blue Dog Democrats and Bart Stupak, among others).