The 12-Month Countdown; Health-Care Reform  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8817 (Jan. 2013), page 25-26.
Topik: Health-Care Law; Government Policy; Political Decision; Health Insurance; Obamacare

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Barack Obama's health-care law is supposed to be in full effect in 2014. Implementing it will not be easy January 1st 2014 seemed far away when Barack Obama signed his health-care law back in 2010. That is the day when the law's main parts will take effect, including the mandate to buy insurance and the expansion of Medicaid, the health programme for the poor. But recent years have been rather hectic. Republicans hoped to gut "Obamacare" first in court, then by electing a Republican president. But Mr Obama is still in the White House. Obamacare, as even the president now calls it, is still law. And January 1st 2014 is still the date when its main parts must go into effect. The next 12 months will be busy. Even without controversy, implementation would be complex. The law tries to reform a sector that accounts for nearly one-fifth of America's GDP. Its 906 pages invite even more pages of regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But implementation will be much harder than Democrats imagined. Bickering has consumed precious time. HHS has delayed issuing essential regulations. Most important, many state governors remain unco-operative.

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