{"id":459671,"date":"2010-03-22T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/senate-health-care-timeline-41218\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:20:06","slug":"senate-health-care-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459671","title":{"rendered":"Senate Health Care Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 03.22.10 09:30 AM posted by Conn Carroll<\/p>\n

Obamacare is still just one signature away from becoming law, but the <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/22\/morning-bell-repeal\/">battle over its repeal has <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/22\/outside-the-beltway-state-ags-start-the-road-to-repeal\/">already begun.* Key to this debate will be which elements of Obamacare phase in when. Back in December after Obamacare first passed the Senate, Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Book* produced the following <ahref="..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/timeline_chart.pdf">chart (pdf) detailing how the policy is scheduled to be implemented between 2010 and 2017. Highlights from each year include:<\/p>\n

2010:<\/b> Physician Medicare payments decrease 21% effective March 1, 2010<\/p>\n

2011:<\/b> \u0093Annual Fee\u0094 tax on health insurance, allocated according to share of total premiums. Begins at $2 billion in 2011, then increases to $4 billion in 2012, $7 billion in 2013, $9 billion in the years 2014, 2015, and 2016, and eventually $10 billion for 2017 and every year thereafter. Two insurers in Nebraska and one in Michigan are exempt from this tax.<\/p>\n

2012:<\/b> Medicare payment penalties for hospitals with the highest readmission rates for selected conditions.<\/p>\n

2013:<\/b> Medicare tax increased from 2.9% to 3.8% for incomes over $250,000 (joint filers) or $200,000 (all others). (This is stated as an increase of 0.9 percentage points, to only the employee\u0092s share of the FICA tax.)<spanid="more-29459"><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:<\/b> Individual mandate begins: Tax penalties for not having insurance begin at $95 or 0.5% of income, whichever is higher, rising to $495 or 1% of income in 2015 and $750 or 2% of income thereafter (indexed for inflation after 2016). These penalties are per adult, half that amount per child, to a maximum of three times the per-adult amount per family. The penalty is capped at the national average premium for the \u0093bronze\u0094 plan.<\/p>\n

2015:<\/b> Establishment of Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to recommend cuts in Medicare benefits; these cuts will go into effect automatically unless Congress passes, and the President signs, an override bill.<\/p>\n

2016:<\/b> Individual mandate penalty rises to $750 per adult ($375 per child), maximum $2,250 per family, or 2% of family income, whichever is higher (capped at the national average premium for the \u0093bronze\u0094 plan). After 2016, the penalty will be increased each year to adjust for inflation.<\/p>\n

2017:<\/b> Itemized deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses is limited to expenses over 10% of AGI for those over age 65.<\/p>\n

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On 03.22.10 09:30 AM posted by Conn Carroll Obamacare is still just one signature away from becoming law, but the <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/22\/morning-bell-repeal\/">battle over its repeal has <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/22\/outside-the-beltway-state-ags-start-the-road-to-repeal\/">already begun.* Key to this debate will be which elements of Obamacare phase in when. Back in December after Obamacare first passed the Senate, Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Book* produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}