Dems’ ObamaCare Task Force Reserves the Right to Decide What Will be Covered by Healthcare Plans
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Perlmutter’s ObamaCare Task Force Reserves the Right to Decide What Will be Covered by Healthcare Plans
Colorado Families’ Health Choices in Hands of Washington Bureaucrats Thanks to Dems’ Healthcare Takeover WASHINGTON — Under Ed Perlmutter’s big-government takeover of healthcare, a sole committee – the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – holds the power to decide what health services will be covered by insurance plans. By voting against repeal of his party’s healthcare takeover Perlmutter is stripping Colorado families of the freedom to choose what preventive services are most important to them, leaving a task force with all the power. “The health benefits that Colorado families currently enjoy could disappear if Ed Perlmutter’s ObamaCare task force deems them too costly or unnecessary,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Letting a bureaucratic task force like this make decisions best left to patients and their doctors is just another example of how Perlmutter’s healthcare overhaul has put a failed big-government agenda ahead of Colorado families.” Recently, the ObamaCare task force decided that prostate cancer screenings were a “waste of money”: “The US Preventive Services Task Force ruled last week that screening for prostate cancer is a waste of money. “Get ready for many more such outrages: This is the agency that will determine which preventive services ObamaCare will require health plans to cover free of charge.” (Jonah Goldberg, “Another deadly taste of ObamaCare,” New York Post, 5/29/2012)From aspirin to cancer screenings, the Democrat party’s healthcare overhaul is allowing a taskforce to jeopardize the coverage of many health services without giving a say to the American people: “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.”
“Health plans will inevitably choose to drop coverage for many services that don’t get a passing grade from the task force and therefore aren’t mandated.” (Scott Gottlieb, “Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee,” The Wall Street Journal, 2/16/2012)
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