Think the Obamacare fight is over? Just wait until they try to implement it

[Ptarmigan]

Think the Obamacare fight is over? Just wait until they try to implement it
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
03/24/10 11:55 AM EDT

Elsewhere at the Examiner today, Tevi Troy makes the case that the health care reform debate is by no means finished because implenting grand legislation such as this is going to be a mighty struggle. Troy, who was Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bush, draws on his experience implementing Medicare Part D:

The shape of the new law will not become clear once the bill passes and is signed. The administration and personnel in charge of the implementation will have a great deal to do with the final structure of the new law.

Washington Examiner-Think the Obamacare fight is over? Just wait until they try to implement it

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A law that is so complex and over 2,000 pages is not going to be easy to implement.

[thundley4]

And you just know that it is going to be fill with unintended consequences.

[DumbAss Tanker]

And you just know that it is going to be fill with unintended consequences.

True...just off the top, the 'Unearned income' surtax's effect on the cost of renting commercial real estate, and hence the cost of doing business at every level, and in an iterative way due to all the vendors' overhead, nationwide, is going to be a big problem that was overlooked in the first rush for gold in the pharma and insurance stocks Monday and Tuesday.