FW: Public Comment - Oregon Insurance Exchange - Non-Discrimination!

[Guest guest]

Dear colleagues, Time once again for you and your patients to step up and give public comment relative to Administrative Rules for Oregon’s coming “Insurance Exchange!” In short if the Federal Health care bill gets struck down by the US Supreme Court we lose the non-discrimination piece which would apply here in Oregon (Federal law trumps state law). I need you and your patients to run up the flag pole one more time the “non-discrimination” flag. Your posts and that of your patients don’t have to be as long as my below just make sure they include the words “NON-DISCRIMINATION OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS” somewhere in your post…..send your comments to: Public.comment@... To the Continued Good Fight! Vern Saboe… From: vsaboe Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:05 PMTo: 'public.comment@...'Subject: " Non-Discrimination of Health Care Providers " The federal “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (PPACA) has a non-discrimination provision SECTION 2706 wherein insurers cannot discriminate against any health care provider practicing within their scope, licensure, or certification. The Governor and the Oregon Legislature are in support of such non-discrimination in Oregon’s coming health care system as evidence by SECTION 4 of Senate Bill 1509 which amended (for the better) SECTION 8 in the Governor’s SB-1580. We submit that such non-discrimination language should be inserted into the developing Administrative Rules relative to Oregon’s coming Insurance Exchange so that if the federal PPACA health care reform legislation is struck down by the US Supreme Court we will have this non-discrimination provision still intact here in Oregon. Vern Saboe, DCOregon Chiropractic Association