Obama Regime Issues Final Report: 1,231 Obamacare Waivers Issued…
Of course HHS is not ending the waiver program, they just won’t announce them in the future. Didn’t Obama promise the most “open and transparent” administration in history?
(The Hill) — Roughly 1,200 companies received waivers from part of the healthcare reform law, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday.
Friday marks the last time HHS will have to update the total number of waivers, putting to rest a recurring political firestorm. The department had been updating its waiver totals every month, prompting monthly attacks from the GOP.
Republicans say the need for waivers proves that the healthcare law is unworkable. HHS argues that the waivers show the law provides flexibility.
All told, 1,231 companies applied for and received waivers from the law’s restrictions on annual benefit caps. The law requires plans to gradually raise their benefit limits, and all annual limits will become illegal in 2014. Companies that received waivers can keep their caps intact until 2014.
Faced with the monthly cycles of GOP criticism, HHS announced last summer that it would stop accepting applications for one-year waivers and would simply grant or deny waivers all the way through the end of 2013.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, January 6, 2012, at 3:42 pm | 
Tweet
How many of the “waiver requests” were accompanied by “campaign donations”? That’s the statistic I want to see.
Obama is the illegal alien president
Waivers for all!!
Waivers? I thought somebody said Waffers. Oooooo lookie, a deep fried peanut butter and nanner samich….
I WANT A WAIVER FROM OBAMA! DAMN MUZZIE COMMUNIST
As he waivers the finger at middle class Americans.
Why not just issue 57 waivers (one for each state) and then call it a day?
Don’t forget… you know else is exempt from Obamacare….
Muslims!
Oh barf. lol, wonder if they realize Old Saybrook is a bit conservative.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Obama-interested-in-Hepburn-house-2445860.php
Who could possibly be against universal health care? Why would anyone need or want a waiver? This is mind-boggling.
I’m sure the news media will get to the bottom of it.
Not until 2013, because they will be locked up by then, or mysteriously disappear.
HHS needs to be disbanded……….now.
Isa 3:11…Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what their hands have done shall be done to them…
I don’t see much difference between passing an explicitly discriminatory law and passing an onerous law that is supposed to be applied evenly and then exempting friends from it.
Obama’s equal protection
I’ve changed my mind about ObamaCare. Instead of beginning the repeal process on the first day of the 2013 term, the program should be used to persecute Liberals.
Step #1. All current waivers will be repealed.
Step #2. New waivers will be issued in reverse order, so that the people who are using the program will also be the people who are paying for the program.
-
(In fact, most of the Liberal programs should NOT be repealed right away. Liberals should be beaten over the head with them first. Let THEM initiate the repeal process.)
.
communists never tell the truth, democRats don’t either
“Didn’t Obama promise the most “open and transparent” administration in history?”
Just like a few other things he promised:
http://granitestaters.com/candidates/barack_obama.html
“Sen. Obama has publicly promised to end the federal raids on state medical marijuana patients and their caregivers. Sen. Obama also voted against an amendment in the U.S. Senate that was intended to undermine state medical marijuana laws.
. . .
Sen. Obama replied: “I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It’s not a good use of our resources.”
A tie on a pig dosnt do anything its still a pig in a tie
Pretty sweet “Chicago pay to play” scam, I’d say……