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This ObamaCare contraception mandate is just the beginning

by Joel McDurmon on Feb 18, 2012

“Think the contraception decision was bad?” asks the Wall Street Journal. Well, just wait. It will get much worse.

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. . . .

Over time, the task force will surely recommend against many services that patients now take for granted, while mandating full insurance coverage for things that they’d be just as happy paying for. Among the interventions that it plans to consider in 2012 are screening for hepatitis C in adults, for osteoporosis in men and for depression in children; counseling for obesity in adults and for alcohol use in adolescents; and daily aspirin for heart-attack and stroke prevention in people over 80.

The task force’s problems are compounded by the fact that it is deliberately exempted from the rules that govern other government advisory boards and regulatory agencies. Thus it has no obligation to hold its meetings in public, announce decisions in draft form or even consider public comments. Consumers have no way to directly appeal its decisions. And health providers or product developers affected by its decisions can’t sue it for recourse.

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6 Comments

  1. The Government is getting to big for it’s pants.The government does whatever the hell it wants to anymore.

    −Dave
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  2. Time to kill your government. Every badge, every suit, every briefcase — use your knife of Christ to cut out their beating hearts and hurl them into the fire. The sooner you bring death to the demons, the sooner you will be free. You must kill to save Christ from the demons with badges and briefcases. Kill to save Christ.

    −Nemesis of Empire
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  3. The only answer to all this federal mandate junk is to return the balance of power back to the states. There is presently a balance of powers act that has been sent to all 50 states legislatures and everyone needs to contact their state legislature to ask them to enact it. What it does is return the power to the states by invoking the power to the state of nullification. Any law that is un-constitutional can be nullified by the states. Many of the recent laws passed would fall into that catagory and the Act also calls for a review of ALL federal laws to ensure they are constitutional, with the stipulation that if they are not they can be nullified. Google Balance of Powers Act.

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