And for that to kick in you needed to file the objection. Otherwise, it's still an existing mandate. No, it's a regulatory rule, which stipulates that "health insurance" (kind of like "motor vehicles") is subject to the oversight and regulatory provisions of the FDA, (or in the page you linked to, as a result of a regulatory finding or act of an Attorney General).
If you are going to provide "health insurance", you have to abide by what the FDA considers "health insurance", sort of like if you're going to build cars, you're going to build cars according to regulations and oversights are extant to the industry.
You're claiming it wasn't a mandate yet here's a site saying it was a mandate since 2002 and I cited language in the bill that supports the assertion that it's a mandate. But you're saying there's no mandate because?? Think of it like this: If you provide prescription drug coverage, you can't deny covering Aderall because you think kids are over-medicated. You also don't get to choose one drug that gets covered because you're invested in that drug. You don't get to cover only prescription X because you don't think it works. Those decisions are the FDA and only the FDA.
If you call an opt-out policy a mandate, then you're the one fucking with me. And if you want me to think that state GOPs are legislating health-care "mandates" when state GOPs hate health-care mandates, well then, I just ain't that stupid.
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Date: 15/3/12 00:33 (UTC)No, it's a regulatory rule, which stipulates that "health insurance" (kind of like "motor vehicles") is subject to the oversight and regulatory provisions of the FDA, (or in the page you linked to, as a result of a regulatory finding or act of an Attorney General).
If you are going to provide "health insurance", you have to abide by what the FDA considers "health insurance", sort of like if you're going to build cars, you're going to build cars according to regulations and oversights are extant to the industry.
You're claiming it wasn't a mandate yet here's a site saying it was a mandate since 2002 and I cited language in the bill that supports the assertion that it's a mandate. But you're saying there's no mandate because??
Think of it like this: If you provide prescription drug coverage, you can't deny covering Aderall because you think kids are over-medicated. You also don't get to choose one drug that gets covered because you're invested in that drug. You don't get to cover only prescription X because you don't think it works. Those decisions are the FDA and only the FDA.
If you call an opt-out policy a mandate, then you're the one fucking with me. And if you want me to think that state GOPs are legislating health-care "mandates" when state GOPs hate health-care mandates, well then, I just ain't that stupid.