Saturday, July 18, 2009

Newspeak

This weekend I downloaded real page turner. (And the summary)

From the summary:
The Health Choices Commissioner specifies the benefits that must be made available in each year – including a requirement that each participating plan provide one basic plan in each service area in which they operate. It is then optional for the plan to offer one enhanced and one premium plan. The differences between the three main plans (i.e. basic, enhanced and premium) are the levels of cost‐sharing required, not the benefits covered. The Commissioner shall establish a permissible range of cost‐sharing variation that is not to exceed plus or minus 10% with regard to each benefit category.
The Health Choices Commissioner sounds like Newspeak to me. We'll get the choices that the allow for us to have, no more no less.

Since reading this is clearly too much of a task for one person if you're not being paid to do it, I would be open to any insights that readers of this blog happen to have.

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