Side Effects: House Fix Is Just the Beginning to Plugging the Holes in Obamacare

Kathryn Nix / July 21, 2010

Though Democrats’ health care bill has already been signed into law, work on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is anything but complete. Last Wednesday, the House passed a bill that would make several technical corrections to the health bill hastily passed last March.

The authors of the PPACA never expected the version that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve to become the final version signed into law. But Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts made it the only possible way Democrats could have passed their desired health care overhaul. Because of the slipshod way in which the legislation was crafted, the Veterans’, Seniors’, and Children’s Health Technical Corrections Act (H.R. 5712) was introduced to fix provisions containing errors or clearly unintentional consequences. This is expected to be the first of many fixes to the health care bill. (more…)