Sebelius is Now Fundraising for ACA Implementation?

[RayNY]

Define "indirect compensation"

As it stands now, the carrier has to compensate an individual in some fashion for business produced. If a carrier is paying without receiving any business, and the money can go to anything (potentially paying navigators to send business to competitors, advertising, IT costs, etc.) how can it be compensation?

If they contributed and the money was earmarked for payment to navigators who sent cases to them, then there would be a problem.

 

[stuy119]

Interesting ...

The person who was actually in charge of the IRS non-profits division when the Tea Party group evaluations were happening is now in charge of overseeing the IRS implementation of the PPACA.

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office - ABC News

Nothing can go wrong there. At all.

 

[AllenChicago]

Sebelius may actually be the C-O-L-D-E-S-T woman who ever entered politics. She breaks the law in a whim, and today, regarding a little girl who needs a lung transplant, Sebelius says to the family...

“I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies,” she replied.

Source: HHS Secretary on dying 10-year-old: “Someone lives and someone dies”

Sebelius makes the news every week, and it's never in a complimentary fashion. Yet this heartless, callous, mean-spirited person is in charge of the health and well-being of every U.S. citizen in some way, shape, or form. On the bright side, if the Exchanges crash technologically, as expected, we'll have a different leader at HHS in 2014. She's already a liability and embarrassment to the Administration.

 

[RayNY]

To her credit, the girl isn't making it either way. You can't conjure a lung. You can't get her on a wait list, let alone the top, let alone find a compatible organ.

Not to be callous, it's a horrible situation, and has no solution due to circumstance. They're using it to try and leverage a change for the adult transplant list to cut off at 10 and not 12. Those aren't decisions you make for one dying child, those are decisions you make based off of science. Show the stats and research supporting it and you have a case. Show that this change saves lives into perpetuity, not that it may give the chance to save one while potentially harming others.

 

[stuy119]

Not the point, Ray. The point is that this type of government intrusion in health care decisions will grow under the "new" system.

 

[RayNY]

I don't see how this is an "intrusion", if anything, it's a lack of intrusion because she won't do anything. They want Sebelius to override a rule established by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. While that is a part of HHS (and under her influence) I don't see how failing to DENY A LUNG TO ANOTHER, ELIGIBLE, DYING CHILD ON THE WAITING LIST, OVER THIS PARTICULAR ONE WHO DOESN'T QUALIFY makes her cold or constitutes government intrusion.

The guidelines are there just so there isn't a person with a pen deciding who lives and dies.

 

[timsip]

I see it not as her lack of action being an intrusion, but the regulation. This is a prime example of doctors saying that this procedure would save the life, but the government saying that the procedure can't be done.

 

[RayNY]

No one debates the procedure will save her life. The Gov't is NOT saying it can't or shouldn't be done. She IS on the pediatric organ donor waiting list, where she SHOULD be.

They (parents & supporters) want to put her on the adult list. A list with many more people ahead of her. A list that, even if she lived long enough to get near the top, would still require finding lungs (not one, not part, but two complete lungs due to her condition) small enough to fit in her 12 year old body (hence being on the children's list in the first place) that are also compatible. By the way, NOTHING excludes children from receiving adult lungs. They don't go "oh, no adults need these, throw them out", anything that doesn't meet a current adult's requirements is sent to children, as is anything coming from children.

"Newman (spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing)said some lungs donated from deceased adults have been offered for children's transplants over the past two years, although he couldn't give a number. But he said all were turned down by the children's surgeons." Via CBS.

By the way, she's now on the Adult list, and has priority on the children's, a local judge passed an injunction forcing it. At least one of the other kids in that hospital filed the same suit already with the same judge. Get ready to see TONS of parents obtaining injunctions to allow their children onto the adult list because a precedent has now been set and spread across every major media outlet.

“The worst of all worlds, in my mind, is to pick and choose who lives and who dies,” Sebelius said Tuesday.