Nice business ya got dere, too bad if anything were to happen to it …
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it would charge insurance companies for the privilege of selling health insurance to millions of Americans in new online markets run by the federal government.
The cost of these “user fees” can be passed on to consumers. The proposed fees could add 3.5 percent to premiums for private health plans sold in insurance exchanges operated by the federal government. […]
The exchanges are supposed to be financially self-sustaining after 2014. States, like the federal government, can charge fees to insurers. Or they can try to raise money in other ways — for example, by charging consumers or employers for using the exchange.
In proposing the new rule, Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said that fees charged by the federal government would be “sufficient to cover the majority of costs related to the operation of federally facilitated exchanges.” She did not say how the remainder of the money would be raised.
Ms. Sebelius said she could not estimate the total amount of federal user fees because she did not know exactly how many states would have federal exchanges. She said the federal fees should generally be “commensurate with fees” charged by state-run exchanges. […]
Fees charged for use of the federal exchange come on top of a separate annual fee to be imposed on health insurance companies to help offset the cost of expanding coverage under the new law. The annual fees, to be apportioned among insurers according to their shares of the nation’s health insurance market, are expected to total $6 billion in 2014 and more than $100 billion over 10 years.
Instead of clearing the way for creation of businesses that actually make stuff, Obamacrats are busy trying to grow a bureaucracy that throws up layers between the consumer and the business, then charging each to reach each other through those layers.
Helluva job, Barry!
h/t HotAir
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I hate it when I misspell a word in a post title. Is there an undo for that?
Trackback post, not this one.
Well, duh! How else is Barry supposed to create jobs that the College Educated Classes® can actually do? It’s not like any of them actually have any clue how to make stuff!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100270379
“US Manufacturing Declines in November: ISM Index”
Slipper Slope blames Bush like a good clown.
Then there is this:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/01/if-you-dont-think-spending-is-at-the-roo/singlepage
The proposed fees could add 3.5 percent to premiums for private health plans…
And you’d better believe that every effort will be made to encourage people to believe that the higher costs are the result of greedy private companies.
Your tax will be taxed.
this is taxation without representation and sebelius can suck a dick I think
a big juicy fascist one