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I have read the Act.
Most of it is like this:
SEC. 1001. AMENDMENTS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
8 ACT.
9 Part A of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act
10 (42 U.S.C. 300gg et seq.) is amended
11 (1) by striking the part heading and inserting
12 the following:
13 PART AINDIVIDUAL AND GROUP MARKET
14 REFORMS;
15 (2) by redesignating sections 2704 through 2707
16 as sections 2725 through 2728, respectively;
17 (3) by redesignating sections 2711 through 2713
18 as sections 2731 through 2733, respectively;
19 (4) by redesignating sections 2721 through 2723
20 as sections 2735 through 2737, respectively; and
21 (5) by inserting after section 2702, the following:
19
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2 SEC. 2711. NO LIFETIME OR ANNUAL LIMITS.
3 (a) IN GENERAL.A group health plan and a health
4 insurance issuer offering group or individual health insur5
ance coverage may not establish
6 (1) lifetime limits on the dollar value of benefits
7 for any participant or beneficiary; or
8 (2) unreasonable annual limits (within the
9 meaning of section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code
10 of 1986) on the dollar value of benefits for any partic11
ipant or beneficiary.
12 (b) PER BENEFICIARY LIMITS.Subsection (a) shall
13 not be construed to prevent a group health plan or health
14 insurance coverage that is not required to provide essential
15 health benefits under section 1302(b) of the Patient Protec16
tion and Affordable Care Act from placing annual or life17
time per beneficiary limits on specific covered benefits to
18 the extent that such limits are otherwise permitted under
19 Federal or State law.
Read the whole thing here.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/resources/authorities/patient-protection.pdf
Notice how much of the Act is tied directly into IRS provisions.
The IRS is the enforcement arm
Why do you think they tied up student loans into this thing?
You noticed!
It turns the IRS into our version of the KGB. Which might have been the whole point all along.
I actually believe that the Right is in full knowledge of all of this.
I believe the Mandate to be a red herring...while everyone chases this they are distracted from the rest of it.
The exchanges are being established now....THEY control coverages AND the premium levels.