{"id":17305,"date":"2013-02-26T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17305"},"modified":"2013-02-26T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:03:32","slug":"obamacare-burden-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17305\/obamacare-burden-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Burden Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t seen it yet, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/aca_burden_tracker_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>ObamaCare Burden Tracker<\/em><\/a> (pdf), a summary of 157 rules and regulations that will impose an <em>annual<\/em> paperwork burden of 127,602,371 hours on the American economy.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>ObamaCare Burden Tracker<\/em> is a joint project of the House Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Energy and Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Scrolling through one discovers such things as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new \u201c340B Drug Pricing Program Forms\u201d (#6) will impose an annual paperwork increase of 14,504 hours<\/li>\n<li>A new \u201cMedicare Enrollment Application\u201d (#32) will be 70,693 hours<\/li>\n<li>Navigating the \u201cProcess for Obtaining Waivers of the Annual Limits Requirements of PHS Act Section 2711\u201d (#50) will cost 178,183 hours per year<\/li>\n<li>The process to file a \u201cLetter Requesting Waiver of Medicare\/Medicaid Enrollment Application Fee; Submission of Fingerprints; Submission of Medicaid Identifying Information; Medicaid Site Visit and Rescreening\u201d (#71) will add a whopping 1,248,082 hours per year<\/li>\n<li>Changes to Medicaid eligibility (#77) will mean 21,279,702 new hours<\/li>\n<li>The form to get credits for Small Employer Health Insurance Premiums (#131) will be 40,189,456 additional hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many, many more.<\/p>\n<p>Though depressing to read, the report is due to a lot of tedious work by hardworking committee staff members. \u00a0Because of it, Americans can see just how much economic productivity is being sacrificed in compliance costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t seen it yet, check out the ObamaCare Burden Tracker (pdf), a summary of 157 rules and regulations that will impose an annual paperwork burden of 127,602,371 hours on the American economy. The ObamaCare Burden Tracker is a joint project of the House Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4057,4056,3308,790,35,4058,1447,300],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-burden","tag-compliance-cost","tag-health","tag-house-republicans","tag-obamacare","tag-paperwork","tag-reform","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17305"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17314,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions\/17314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}