Never-Confirmed Medicare Director Announces New Obamacare Paperwork Requirement

Wednesday, August 17, 2011
By Fred Lucas

Dr. Donald Berwick, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. (AP Photo/Goodman Media International, Inc.)

(CNSNews.com) – A proposed federal health insurance regulation set to take effect next year requires insurers to provide consumers with explanatory summaries of their plans, but the insurance industry contends this could be costly to enrollees, and offer little benefit.

The new rule – part of the $1 trillion Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare – was announced Wednesday by Donald Berwick, President Obama’s recess appointee to be director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Berwick has never been confirmed or subjected to a confirmation hearing by a Democrat-controlled Senate.

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