{"id":20524,"date":"2014-04-14T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20524"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:57:18","slug":"will-sebelius%e2%80%99-replacement-follow-her-lawless-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20524\/will-sebelius%e2%80%99-replacement-follow-her-lawless-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Sebelius\u2019 Replacement Follow Her Lawless Lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a suggested question for GOP Senators to ask Sylvia Burwell \u2013 President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services \u2013 at her confirmation hearing next month.<\/p>\n<p>Studies by the RAND Corporation and Goldman Sachs estimate as much as 20 percent of the claimed 7.5 million ObamaCare enrollments have not paid their first month\u2019s premiums.<\/p>\n<p>When enrollees start seeing how much their deductibles are \u2013 commonly $3,000 to $5,000 \u2013 many more may choose to stop paying ObamaCare\u2019s higher out-of-pocket expenses.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens, it\u2019s really bad news for doctors and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSection 1412 of the health law gives consumers a 90-day \u2018grace period\u2019 before their subsidized plan is canceled for nonpayment. But insurers only have to keep paying doctors and hospitals for 30 days. The next 60 days of care on the care provider,\u201d explains <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/04\/13\/the-next-obamacare-disasters\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Betsy McCaughey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]t could pose a significant financial risk for medical practices,\u201d the American Medical Association warns.<\/p>\n<p>The HHS Secretary has no express power to bail out such care providers.<\/p>\n<p>However, under the previous Secretary, the Department of Health and Human Services didn\u2019t shy away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/296891\/market-oriented-medicare-advantage-especially-popular-big-swing-states-avik-roy\" target=\"_blank\">spending $8 billion without congressional authorization<\/a> to hide Medicare Advantage cuts before the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>This and many other extra-legal actions by Secretary Sebelius have come to define HHS as the most powerful domestic federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Burwell, Do you think the absence of express authority to bail out care providers in the above situation limits you in any way from spending money for this purpose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a suggested question for GOP Senators to ask Sylvia Burwell \u2013 President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services \u2013 at her confirmation hearing next month. Studies by the RAND Corporation and Goldman Sachs estimate as much as 20 percent of the claimed 7.5 million ObamaCare enrollments [&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":[4487,3308,186,1829,35,4160,42],"class_list":["post-20524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-burwell","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-premium","tag-sebelius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524","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=20524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20528,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions\/20528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}