This is the third in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on the otherwise dense House Bill.The page selected for today’s post is page 347 of the House Bill, which contains the final paragraphs of Sec. 1171, “Limitation on Cost-Sharing for Individual Health Services.” This section seems positive on its face – who could be against limits on cost-sharing – but these limitations raise the question whether this will have a negative effect on the availability to alternatives to traditional Medicare.Section 1171 modifies section 1852(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w–22(a)(1)), by adding at the end of the subsection the words in quotation marks below: (A) In general.—Except as provided in section 1859(b)(3) for MSA plans...(Read Full Post)