I wonder how this will look in campaign ads

[Nuclear Unicorn]

WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.

...

Under the policy, many group health plans will be able to maintain separate out-of-pocket limits for benefits in 2014. As a result, a consumer may be required to pay $6,350 for doctors’ services and hospital care, and an additional $6,350 for prescription drugs under a plan administered by a pharmacy benefit manager.

Some consumers may have to pay even more, as some group health plans will not be required to impose any limit on a patient’s out-of-pocket costs for drugs next year. If a drug plan does not currently have a limit on out-of-pocket costs, it will not have to impose one for 2014, federal officials said Monday.

...But federal officials said that many insurers and employers needed more time to comply because they used separate companies to help administer major medical coverage and drug benefits, with separate limits on out-of-pocket costs.

In many cases, the companies have separate computer systems that cannot communicate with one another.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/a-limit-on-consumer-costs-is-delayed-in-health-care-law.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

I'm not even going to pretend to be a fan of the PPACA. I think it herds us into private profit coffers under government unction while leaving us as taxpayers liable for the inevitable shoddy business practices that follow once companies realize they have a captive audience. It's nothing more than a government imposed monopoly.

That being said the cap on consumer costs has now been delayed. Imagine the worst spin possible the GOP can put on this and you'll see what 2014 is shaping-up to become.

Oh yeah, I almost forget -- and many families will be devastated by the year-long money grab...which I'm sure will also be GOP ad-fodder.

*sigh*

[babylonsister]

1. Not just gop fodder. nt

[DevonRex]

2. Looks to me like you're using it

for anti-Obama fodder, too. So you tell us. How does it look in campaign ads?

Since you admit right there in writing that you really hate the program to begin with and all...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. I'll answer your question if you reciprocate by telling us what's good about compulsory

corporate profits with zero private liability.

Deal?