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LEGAL PROCESSING DIVISION 


l!!~UCATION " REGULATIONS . BRANCH ­ As of: August 20, 2010 

Received: August 09, 2010 

Status: Posted 

Posted: August 20, 2010 

Tracking No. 80b2cb78 

PUBLIC 

SUBMISSION Comments Due: August 16, :WlO 

Submission Type: Web 

Docket: IRS-2010-0010 

Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage Rules Relating to Status as a Grandfathe~ed 

Health Plan Under the Patient Protection and Afforable Care Act 

Comment On: IRS-2010-0010-0001 

Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage: Interim Final Rules for Relating to Status as 

a Grandfathered Health Plan under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 

Document: IRS-2010-0010-0191 

Comment on FR Doc # 2010-14488 

Submitter Information 

Name: Shannon D. Anton 

Address: 

143 Biddle Rd 

Lincoln, VT, 05443 

Email: samidwife@aol.com 

Phone: 802-453-3635 

General Comment 

Limiting access to chiropractors is a bad idea. Citizens deserve the right to choose their own 

health care practitioners and modalities. If consumers have to be forced, funneled, or denied fair 

access to their care of choice, then there really is no free market in medical care. All citizens 

deserve to make their own best choice, without regard to which special interest might lose out. 

Being a health care practitioner does not guarantee that the public wants what you have to offer. 

If nobody wants chiropractic care, chiropractors will go away. If people want chiropractic carE! but 

don't have access because another medical interest succeeds in limiting coverage for that care, 

it's the consumer who suffers-in the interest of an economic business concern. 

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IRS-2010-0010-0191.1: Comment on FR Doc # 2010-14488 

https:llfdms.erulemaking.netlfdms-web-agency1componentisubmitterlnfoCoverPage ?Call =... 8/20/2010 
August 9, 2010 

Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight 

Department of Health and Human Services 

Attention: OCIIO-9991-IFC 

P.O. Box 8016 

Baltimore, MD 21244-1850 

Re: Interim Final Rule for Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage Relating to 

Status as a Grandfathered Health Plan Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 

As a consumer and chiropractic patient I wish to take this opportunity to formally comment on 

the interim final rule regarding health plans and "grandfather" status (Document ID IRS-20 10­

001 0-000 1 ). 

I believe the consumer protections included as part of the new health care law are vitally 

important and should be extended to as many people as possible. Accordingly, every effort 

should be made to increase the number of individuals covered by the Patient Protection and 

Affordable Care Act (PP ACA) via the above regulations. The triggers or conditions that would 

extend these protections to consumers under currently existing "grandfathered" plans should not 

be weakened or reduced in any way. I specifically support the position and detailed comments 

offered by the American Chiropractic Association with respect to the implementation of these 

regulations. 

Limiting access to chiropractors is a bad idea. Citizens deserve the right to choose their ovm 

health care practitioners and modalities. If consumers have to be forced, funneled, or denied fair 

access to their care of choice, then there really is no free market in medical care. All citizens 

deserve to make their own best choice, without regard to which special interest might lose out. 

Being a health care practitioner does not guarantee that the public wants what you have to offer. 

If nobody wants chiropractic care, chiropractors will go away. If people want chiropractic care 

but don't have access because another medical interest succeeds in limiting coverage for that 

care, it's the consumer who suffers-in the interest of an economic business concern. 

Sincerely, 

Shannon Anton 

Lincoln, VT