Implementing Health Reform: Your Guide to Where Things Stand
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Passing health reform was easy compared to implementing it. More than 2500 pages. 159 new federal offices, agencies, and programs. More than $1 trillion to be spent. Nearly $500 billion in new taxes to collect. 10 years to implement. Nearly 500 deadlines.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began the implementation process the moment President Obama signed the legislation into law on March 23, 2010. Over the next decade, the impact of the law will be far-reaching, from state capitals to businesses large and small to patients to care providers. Each must know what specific rule or regulation will affect them. How to prepare. How to make their voice heard. What deadlines are ahead. What deadlines have been missed.
This interactive timeline is your guide to where things stand. All the rules, requirements, and deadlines will be catalogued.
The deadlines for action through the end of 2010 are available now. More will be added every day, including links to completed actions and additional resources.
Special thanks go to the Republican staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for their work in cataloguing the bill’s deadlines.