Having unlawfully arrogated the authority to grant 1433 ObamaCare waivers, the Obama Regime has decreed all plans must comply effective 2014
Corrupt from inception: ObamaCare — send it to a death panel.
(The Hill) — The Obama administration announced Friday it is changing the way it approves waivers to part of the healthcare reform law.
Instead of approving a new batch of year-long waivers every month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that plans have until Sept. 22 to apply for a waiver that will carry through 2013. Starting in 2014, all plans will have to comply with the provisions of the law and the waivers will be moot.
CMS has been updating the waiver totals every month — and every month, critics of the healthcare law have seized the fresh opportunity to argue that the healthcare law is unworkable. That cycle of bad press could have repeated itself every month for the next three years without the changes announced Friday.
Steve Larsen, the director of the office overseeing implementation of the new law, said the new waiver process isn’t a response to the barrage of criticism the administration has faced.
“This was the course that we mapped out a year ago,” he said on a conference call with reporters.
The waivers are for a single provision of the healthcare reform law: its restrictions on annual benefit limits. Some plans, often called “mini-meds,” place tight caps on how much they’ll pay out in a year. The new law gradually increases those benefit caps each year until 2014, when it bans them altogether. But many employers are more likely to quit offering coverage than to comply immediately with the new requirements.
The administration to date has granted 1,433 waivers, covering 3.2 million people. It granted 62 new waivers in May.
Larsen said CMS began granting one-year waivers so that it could gather data on how to approach the policy in 2012 and 2013.
Employers that don’t have a waiver have until September to seek one. Those that have already received a waiver must ask for an extension through 2013. Larsen said requesting an extension will be “a very simple process; it’s not filling out a whole new application.”
This year, health plans can’t impose benefit caps lower than $750,000. The maximum allowable limit increases to $1.2 million in September, and then to $2 million in September 2012. The $750,000 standard was the hardest one for mini-med plans to meet, Larsen said.
“By the time we reach September, people that felt they needed a waiver would have had the opportunity to apply,” he said.
Also on Friday, the administration released the names of applicants who were denied a waiver. Republican lawmakers had been clamoring for the release of that information.
A recent Government Accountability Office report found nothing suspicious about the way the waivers have been awarded, but each batch of new approvals provoked accusations of favoritism and cronyism among conservative foes of the new law.
In a typical statement last month when the latest batch of waivers was announced, Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee lambasted the administration.
“Despite the president’s promise,” the statement said, “the new reality seems to be this: If you like your plan, you need a waiver to keep it — and only until 2014, when the waivers disappear and the government takes over the market.”
Posted by WM on Friday, June 17, 2011, at 6:36 pm | 
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I think King Assole thinks he’s going to be King Asshole for years to come.
If P-Bo gets re-elected you won’t need a waiver, you’ll need a miracle.
SCHMUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
That POS law Obamacide will be the death of us all.
Obama and his sneaky recess appointed Dr. Death Berwick have already personally sentenced over 17,500 Americans to death for financial reasons. Last December Death Berwick recinded approval of avastin for treatment of breast cancer. There were 17,500 Americans for whom this drug was working (they were called super responders). At least the bastard wasn’t confirmed.
Critics of Obamacide were derided when they warned of “death” panels, rationing, and interference in medical-care choices. The Avastin example has all of this and more. The interference by government in the doctor/patient relationship is blatant.
Pelosi had her dirty hands involved as well. In the healthcare debate, the issue of generic biotechnology agents was brought up, primarily to reduce cost. Generics cost much less than the so-called “pioneer drug”. Pelosi shot down this potential cost saving measure, because Genentech, the developer of avastin, is in her district, and such a law would have significantly restricted their earnings, and thus the money flow into her district.
Let’s not forget Reid and Obama again who held up Drogan’s amendment until it failed to pass. This amendment which would have allowed Americans to purchase cheaper drugs internationally, but Obama had made a deal with Big Pharma. (2 fucking percent discount) And don’t forget all the money Big Pharma poured into Reid’s reelection campaign.
Ha!
He just sold his buddies out again!
In the messiahs mind this probably falls under the “I guess the shovel ready jobs were not so shovel ready, lol”.Has there ever been a bigger a**hole than this poseur? Jimmy Carter is going to seem like Reagan at the end of this shitstorm. Someone has to bring impeachment charges soon, use the “gun running charge to Mexico thing” already…
Remember, the Amish were given a waiver too.
Come ’14 I’ll be Amish.
“The Obama administration announced Friday it is changing the way it approves waivers to part of the healthcare reform law.”
“all plans must comply effective 2014″
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#1 What Gives the Obama administration the authority to make on-the-fly changes to legislation?
#2 What makes Obama think he will be President in 2014?
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Hahahahaha, so you sucked up and got a temporary reprieve, but you’re gonna lose too!!!!! Hahahahaha. This sounds like the lefties that suck up to islam, maybe hoping to part of the new caliphate or something, good luck fools.
the fraud will be on death row by then.
Wow just in time for his re-election .
What a fucking crook and hack.
He wants to make sure all his donors have a waiver so they will give him more money and make people vote for them
We are all fucked if this is not stopped
I hate this dude,a fraud helped by the liberal media
Soetoro, everyone knows your not legitimate. Go to hell! This isn’t a government it’s a crime syndicate. I hope Al Queda does get him one day when he’s on the campaign trail, or the golf course.
This entire Congress knows he isn’t a legitimate president. They are allowing him to do this.
What a joke. /When his people say they still don’t want to pay, he’ll just issue more waivers. That will go on as long as the parties involved participate.
Of course not everyone is going to pay the same at the same time. What part of “redistribute the wealth” did you not understand??? Some will pay, some won’t . Otherwise why bother with socialism in the first place?
The important questions will never answered, the lives of the citizens will become secondary to this monstrosity of a law. Robots will have more rights than American citizens.
Shoved up Trumpka’s butt! Wait til the rank & file get their bill!
@Damn Those Torpedoes
“the lives of the citizens will become secondary to this monstrosity of a law.”
You are exactly right! An alleged ‘compassionate law’ without even a semblance of actual compassion. Your life and health will be weighed in terms of cost and containment.