Of course it is. The problem is that the health care costs situation results in many deaths and very severe economic consequences for much of the country. Unt

Of course it is. The problem is that the health care costs situation results in many deaths and very severe economic consequences for much of the country. Until lying, cheating, and scheming, and screwing over the public have consequences like prison time, you can expect executives to do everything possible to avoid complying with the spirit of laws like this. There probably was an effort to create a more useful and sanely worded law that would provide a uniform format for rules that could reduce dataset sizes by a factor of 100, but was killed by the healthcare industry because it would require some implementation costs on their end and make the data files actually useful.