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The Health Care Compact: Moving to the front burner?
Thursday, December 1, 2016 9:25
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Richard Fernandez (Wretchard’s Belmont Club, posting at PJ Media) speculates that the Health Care Compact may be one of the best options available to dismantle and repeal Obamacare. Rep. Tom Price, the nominee to head Health and Human Services, is a long-time advocate of the Health Care Compact. Here are a few extracts from Fernandez’s report:
According to the Congressional record the HCC [Health Care Compact] would give “primary responsibility for regulation of health care to the state. Federal and state laws remain in effect in a member state until suspended by the state. A member state is responsible for federal funding obligations that remain in effect in the state. Each year, a member state is entitled to federal funds equal to the total federal spending on health care in the state during FY2010, adjusted for inflation and population.” It turns federal funds into what amounts to a block grant, leaving states free to create, cooperate and compete.
The HCC specifically does not affect the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration. “The compact establishes the Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission to collect information and data to assist member states in their regulation of health care. The commission may make non-binding recommendations to the member states.”
That would ironically make it an ideal vehicle for states like Vermont or California whose voters are largely opposed to the Trump administration to roll their own health care and effort in which other like-minded liberal states can join them. HHS nominee Tom Price’s rhetoric suggests he would have no objections in principle to taking Washington out of the picture. In a quote cited by the Wall Street Journal Price said: “We think it’s important that Washington not be in charge of health care,” the six-term congressman said in an interview this summer. “The problem that I have with Obamacare is that its premise is that Washington knows best.”
The general tenor of an Obamacare replacement plans emphasize giving consumers money to pick and choose policies instead of forcing them to consume Federally prescribed products.
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The HCC like so many other dark horses in this year of unexpected upsets is now a real player. Too many impossible things have taken place for anyone to easily dismiss anything out of hand now. The next few weeks will give a clearer indication of where health care policy is trending. But one thing is for sure. The long shot’s not such a long shot any more.
The article includes a key quote from (gasp) the New York Times. Read it and the rest of Fernandez’s article here.
The last time Cleveland Tea Party reported on the Ohio Health Care Compact was October 2015, when the House in Columbus passed the bill. At that time, it was headed for the Senate. Perhaps the time has come.
mabe if they didnt what to kill every one over 55 it may have been excepted,and they wonder why obama care didnt work out for them. look what happened to them ,they got voted out. next ones need to remember this.
mabe if they didnt what to kill every one over 55 it may have been excepted,and they wonder why obama care didnt work out for them. look what happened to them ,they got voted out. next ones need to remember this.