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Only 16 states run their own exchanges. The federal government runs extend his for the remaining 34 states that opted out of setting up their own. The court is expected to rule on the case before the end of the term in june. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Well hear arguments this morning in case 14114, king v. Burwell. Mr. Carvin. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, this is a straightforward case of statutory construction where the plain language of the statute dictates the result. Mr. Carvin, will you please back up, because before we get to a question of statutory construction, as you know, each plaintiff, or at least one plaintiff, has to have a concrete stake in these questions. They cant put them as ideological questions. And we have as four plaintiffs. As to two of them, there is a declaration stating i am not eligible for Health Insurance from the government, but theres a question of whether they are veterans eligible for coverage as veterans. Yes. One of those is m
Of the law. It is just getting underway. I want to give a special thanks for braving the elements and trouble uncertainties to get here. If you decided that staying home was the better part of your valor andd you are watching from cspan, welcome to you too. Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the sy center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on the Affordable Care act, we will be conducting three more of these primers next month not next friday, but the two fridays following that, and on wednesday april 1, on medicaid, medicare, and healthcare costs respectively. Mark your calendars. We will see you back here. As for todays program, one might ask, why there is a need for a primer on outlaws a few weeks of being five years old, and has been in the spotlight virtually every day since it was signed into law. Well, there are two fairly larg
Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on the Affordable Care act, we will be conducting three more of these primers next month, not next friday, but the two fridays following that, and on wednesday april 1, on medicaid, medicare and healthcare costs respectively. Mark your calendars. We will see you back here. As for todays program, one might ask, why there is a need for a primer on outlaws, a few weeks of being five years old, and has been in the spotlight virtually every day since it was signed into law. Well, there are two fairly large reasons, one being this is a fairly complicated law, as some of you have found. With many different provisions and even without congressional action to amend it, many of those provisions have changed since its enactment. Secondly, bright people come and go.
Specifically subsection 8 of 1311 would allow the secretary to prevent physicians treating patients in exchanges unless they implement such mechanisms to improve Health Care Quality the secretary may require. Physicians must follow quality directives as defined by the secretary or lose their business. Mr. Smith, are you aware of this provision . I am not familiar with that section. Let me ask you this. In this provision, you may not know this either, but the word quality is not defined in the statute. It is safe to assume that the secretary, not just secretary sebelius, but every secretary to follow, would be able to define for regulation what that word quality means. Yes or no . I believe that is the correct interpretation. Again, we have tried to introduce quality performances into a variety of parts of our programs, both in managed care, both in the feeforservice world, and this is another one of our concerns that we will have states with standards, and the federal government with s