Pet peeve 2
Feb. 28th, 2011 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42"If your state can create a plan that can cover as many people as affordably and comprehensively as the Affordable Care Act does, without increasing the deficit, you can implement that plan and we'll work with you to do it," Obama told the governors.
Obama's offer is not as sweeping as it may sound at first. In fact, the law already allows states to propose their own framework for health care. But under the law, states cannot offer their plans until 2017. The president said Monday states could submit their ideas three years earlier, in 2014.
Liberal-leaning states like Vermont would be able to experiment with a coverage-for-all approach similar to Medicare while Republican-leaning states would be able to propose plans that don't rely on a government mandate to buy insurance. One alternative would be to automatically enroll people in health coverage. (emphasis mine)
How... Tell me, what does "automatically enrolling people in health coverage" even mean? And, um, how is that any different from compulsory insurance/government mandate?
I... just don't understand. I'm hoping it's because the writer isn't able to convey the information rather than my having caught the terminal stupidity engulfing this country.
Obama's offer is not as sweeping as it may sound at first. In fact, the law already allows states to propose their own framework for health care. But under the law, states cannot offer their plans until 2017. The president said Monday states could submit their ideas three years earlier, in 2014.
Liberal-leaning states like Vermont would be able to experiment with a coverage-for-all approach similar to Medicare while Republican-leaning states would be able to propose plans that don't rely on a government mandate to buy insurance. One alternative would be to automatically enroll people in health coverage. (emphasis mine)
How... Tell me, what does "automatically enrolling people in health coverage" even mean? And, um, how is that any different from compulsory insurance/government mandate?
I... just don't understand. I'm hoping it's because the writer isn't able to convey the information rather than my having caught the terminal stupidity engulfing this country.
