As West Virginia state government tries to follow the federal mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obamacare - the old adage looks truer and truer.
Haste makes waste.
A year after Democrats passed the law, state officials still have basic questions as they try to comply with the mandates of the more than 2,000-page measure.
At issue is a Health Insurance Exchange, under which, starting in 2014, the state would regulate the benefit packages insurance companies can offer, and private health insurers would offer plans.
No one seems to know how many uninsured people would use such an exchange to buy their mandated health insurance.
Officials face a number of options, all of them dizzying.
Medicaid would cover families with annual incomes of as much as 133 percent of the federal poverty level. For a family of four, that figure would be $29,300.
But some people will make too much for that. So West Virginia could create a whole new basic state-run program to cover people whose income is 133 percent to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. That would cover families of four whose annual household income is between $29,300 and $44,100.
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