reports National Journal<\/a>. \u201cAnd overall Medicaid spending on long-term care is projected to balloon from $60 billion annually to more than $100 billion in 2023, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated, as the baby boomers get older and require more care.\u201d<\/p>\nHealth care industry leaders are anxiously awaiting the new regulations without any indication of what\u2019s coming. CMS has been working on the updated regulatory scheme for more than a year, and so far is keeping the people most effected in the dark.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a lot like the recent Mayweather-Pacquiao fight,\u201d a representative of managed care plans is quoted as saying. \u201cThere\u2019s lots and lots of hype around it, and it\u2019s either going to be epic or it\u2019s going to kind of fizzle.\u201d<\/p>\n
With President Barack Obama\u2019s penchant for going big, it will be shocking if his administration opts for fizzle instead of epic. That nameless bureaucrats have this much control over major policy decisions says a lot about the real do-nothing tendencies of Congress. Rather than debate and deliberate over such a consequential matter, Members of Congress have outsourced their lawmaking function to an executive agency.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not leadership. It\u2019s a dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services won\u2019t say what\u2019s coming before it announces new rules for long-term managed care, the first in 13 years. \u201cThe number of people enrolled roughly quadrupled, from 105,000 in 2004 to 389,000 in 2012,\u201d reports National Journal. \u201cAnd overall Medicaid spending on long-term care is projected to balloon from […]<\/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":[1138,4579,84,3308,232,306],"class_list":["post-22838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bureaucracy","tag-cms","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-medicaid","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838","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=22838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22843,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions\/22843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}