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Health & Fitness

The Biggest Obamacare Whopper of All

Betsy McCaughey explains in the New York Post why his words, “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making,” amount to biggest whopper of all:

Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring “health-care quality,” which of course could mean anything.

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