What’s in It:
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House is reviewing an avalanche of new Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules, including the Individual Mandate Tax. In total, these 28 paperwork burdens total more than 45.7 million burden hours. OIRA missed the Aug 26 deadline—that’s Aug 26, 2013.
http://americanactionforum.org/insights/white-house-holding-45-million-hours-of-aca-paperwork-including-the-individFrom Forbes: State exchanges really include federal exchanges for purposes of handing out ACA subsidies, argues the Obama Administration. The contrary decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in Halbig v. Burwell will be reheard en banc—since Obama had the foresight to pack the Court when the Senate filibuster rule was overturned.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannon/2014/09/04/decision-to-en-banc-halbig-v-burwell-is-unwise-unfortunate-and-appears-political/The two-tiered system is already here: It’s called Medicaid. ObamaCare traps more people in this inferior system.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2014/09/02/dont-trap-people-in-medicaid/print/The waivered Pennsylvania Medicaid expansion has no good—just bad and ugly, and will leave taxpayers in the red besides.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/09/02/obamas-red-ink-on-healthy-pa-will-leave-taxpayers-in-the-red-feeling-blue/print/
The Matrix:
From NCPA: Some $26 billion later, electronic health records still can’t talk to each other—although interoperability was the whole point. Still, the bounty plus the threat has pushed 48% of physicians into adopting some kind of EHR.
http://healthblog.ncpa.org/interoperability-of-electronic-health-data-is-a-unicorn/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-38915From Forbes: ACA exchanges are “the most widespread violation of the [federal] Privacy Act in our history,” stated Michael Astrue, a former Social Security Commissioner. The White House disclosed to the Wall Street Journal that a hacker has breached Healthcare.gov, compromising personal data for millions of Americans.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/09/05/as-many-predicted-obamacares-healthcare-gov-reports-hack-attack-security-remains-compromised/From Citizen’s Council for Health Freedom: The EHR is the key to controlling doctors—and patients. An emerging trend is to add “behavioral” data—what the patient does outside the doctor’s office to the medical record.
http://healthenews.cchfreedom.org/newsletter.php/165From the American College of Physicians: Senior VP Robert Doherty explains brilliantly why doctors hate EHRs, but he thinks they can be fixed.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/fieldclinic/Why-doctors-hate-electronic-health-records.html#CSLDTYlDjWGGOeOY.99From Medscape: Meaningful use is into the penalty phase, and the penalties are piling up.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/830845#1Seen on Social Media:
OBAMA'S POLICIES CREATED THIS: Americans fret about mystery virus & the illegal kids http://t.co/D0aegrAkXK #tcot pic.twitter.com/eD8l2IGyLx
— slone (@slone) September 11, 2014
