I’ve been sick this week, I finally got around to looking at the House Health Care Bill just released.  It seems ironic that it goes on for nearly 2000 pages, given that diarrhea was one of the symptoms I was suffering from when it was posted.  (I know, TMI)

Section 101, which is the first section of actual legislation and covers high-risk insurance pools as the legislation is phased in includes this:

(2) INSUFFICIENT FUNDS- If the Secretary estimates for any fiscal year that the aggregate amounts available for payment of expenses of the high-risk pool will be less than the amount of the expenses, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or establishing waiting lists.

The Democratic leaders in the House are envisioning the need to ration health care (i.e. establishing waiting lists) for those in the high-risk insurance pool during the transitional period.  That means the people that wrote the bill foresee the need to ration care in the next 3-5 years if the bill is past as written.

If this is in the first section of a 2000 page bill, you can just imagine what the rest of this debacle holds.

I plan to post more as I read.

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