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February 01, 2012 at 07:00 PM
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other agencies responsible for implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) may not be doing such a great job of analyzing the effects of the PPACA regulations they are developing.
Christopher Conover, a researcher at the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University, and Jerry Ellig, a researcher at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, gave that assessment in a PPACA implementation working paper distributed by Mercatus.
Conover and Ellig focus on implementation of eight major PPACA regulations that were issued as interim final rules in 2010, including the Coverage of Preventive Services, Medical Loss Ratio Requirements and Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan regulations.
Federal law requires agencies to analyze the cost of implementing regulations and other possible effects, and to also look at alternatives to the regulations.
