President Obama may have won reelection earlier this month, but the fight over his signature domestic accomplishment, Obamacare, is just beginning. Yesterday the Health and Human Services administration dropped 333 pages of new regulations dictating how states must implement Obamacare
The new regulations set price controls on how much insurers are allowed to charge different patients for insurance and how much consumers will be allowed to pay for their own health care out of pocket. The regulations also set up ten broad categories of “essential health benefits” that must be covered by every health insurance plan. But even these rules will only be good through 2015, at which time the Obama administration maintains the power to change them completely at will.
