The administration has shrugged off attacks for its delays on issuing Obamacare regulations. But you'd think they would have been more timely on the Basic Health Program regs, whose postponed implementation will have a major impact on the law's coverage expansion.
The BHP was designed to provide coverage assistance program for people with incomes too high for Medicaid but who cannot afford exchange coverage, even with subsidies. An HHS guidance document released this week put off proposed rules until sometime later this year and implementation of the program until 2015. That's a year later than originally planned.
The delay will hit coverage expansion for people the law was supposed to benefit the most: the low-to-moderate income uninsured.
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Just as truth is the first casualty of war, policy nuance dies quickly in political combat.
The latest example of that was seen in the healthcare firefight over emergency department use and the Massachusetts healthcare overhaul.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got things started when he was asked in a Sept. 23 “60 Minutes” interview about any government responsibility to provide healthcare. Romney responded that “different states have different ways of doing that,” including care through clinics, emergency departments and “a solution that worked for my state.”
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