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pinboy3niner

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3. Health site explains where they got that nonsense...
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 10:18 AM
Mar 2012
...here's where the dollar-abortion thing comes in:

QHP (Qualified Health Plan) insurers will have to figure out how much money goes into the allocated account -- the "basic per enrollee, per month cost, determined on an average actuarial basis, for including [abortion] coverage." From the current rule:

In making such an estimate, the QHP issuer:
(i) May take into account the impact on overall costs of the inclusion of such coverage, but may not take into account any cost reduction estimated to result from such services, including prenatal care, delivery, or postnatal care;

(ii) Must estimate such costs as if such coverage were included for the entire population covered; and

(iii) May not estimate such a cost at less than one dollar per enrollee, per month.


There's your "$1 abortion" -- an accounting detail that doesn't describe the price of the procedure, but the floor for calculations of the cost of the allocated account.

http://daily.decisionhealth.com/Blogs/Detail.aspx?id=200234




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