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Meet The ObamaCare Mandate Committee

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Offended by President Obama’s decision to force health insurers to pay for contraception and surgical sterilization? It gets worse:In the future,thanks to ObamaCare,the government will issue such health edicts on a routine basis—and largely insulated from public view. This goes beyond contraception to cancer screenings,the use of common drugs like aspirin,and much more.
Under ObamaCare,a single committee—the United States Preventative Services Task Force—is empowered to evaluate preventive health services and decide which will be covered by health-insurance plans.
The task force already rates services with letter grades of “A”through “D”(or “I,”if it has “insufficient evidence”to make a rating). But under ObamaCare,services rated “A”or “B”—such as colon cancer screening for adults aged 50-75—must be covered by health plans in full,without any co-pays. Many services that get “Cs”and “Ds”—such as screening for ovarian or testicular cancer—could get nixed from coverage entirely.
That’s because mandating coverage for all the “A”and “B”services will be very costly. In 2000,the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the marginal cost of similar state insurance mandates was 5%-10% of total claims. Other estimates put the cost of mandates as high as 20% of premiums.
Read more at the Wall Street Journal.