200 more health care waivers approved by OBY

[TLaMana]

The majority of the casinos are in Pinkys' back pocket (or is it the other way around?).

[AirFlacco]

OBY HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ON OBAMA CARE?

States are now getting waivers to OBAMACARE. Maine was the first state to get one.

http://blog.timesunion.com/teaparty/...e-waiver/2376/


Now Nevada gets one as more states will be getting waivers as OBY is hedging on
OBAMACARE. he knows the states hate it because of what it's gonna cost them so, watch,
he'll be granting more and more waivers to them.

BTW, Pelosi got 20% of the latest round of waivers for restaurants and hotels in Calif.

http://sfist.com/2011/05/17/rightwin...acare_waiv.php

Now Reid's state of Navada gets one and that's the state, not companies
and Pelosi and Reid said anyone who opposed it was a
Nazi. Now they're opposing it by getting all these waivers which means
they don't have to comply to the law which means there is no law to them
which means Pelosi and Reid are the Nazis.





http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...hts-obamacare/

[4G63]

I'm so glad one of the biggest pavement-pounders before the 0bamacare vote is getting a pass.

AARP gets their waiver.

Is this the most corrupt 'pay-for-play' Administration ever or what?

[NCRAVEN]

Who needs the Supreme Court to rule on this? By the time the election comes around there will be more states exempt than ones having it enforced on them.

I would be very surprised if this bill is every fully implemented.

[Galen Sevinne]

Okay class, your conservative mindlessness has gone on too long. It has been funny to read your comments but allow me to, once again, introduce you to reality:

Richard Sorian, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at HHS, posts on the White House blog:

The Truth About Waivers: Protecting Coverage for Millions of Americans

Today, you might have seen news stories about waivers from certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. There has been no shortage of confusion and deliberate obfuscation on this issue and we want to ensure you have the facts.

Under the Affordable Care Act, we have implemented new rules that phase out, by 2014, health insurance companies’ ability to slap restrictive annual dollar limits on the amount they will pay for your care. But between now and 2014, we also want to make sure workers are able to maintain their existing insurance, because on their own they would likely be shut out of the individual market or face unaffordable options. To do that, the Affordable Care Act allows the Department of Health and Human Services to issue temporary waivers from the annual limit provision of the law if it would disrupt access to existing insurance arrangements or adversely affect premiums, causing people to lose coverage. So far, we have granted 1,372 of these waivers to employers, health plans, and others in all 50 states, covering less than 2 percent of the insurance market and protecting coverage for more than 3.1 million Americans. We have been completely transparent about this process, announcing the waiver process in a regulation last summer, publishing clear guidance on the application process on our website, and posting a list of waivers we have granted on our website.

These temporary waivers will not be available beginning in 2014 when annual limits are banned and all Americans will have affordable coverage options. And millions of Americans – including many small business owners – will be able to shop for affordable coverage in new competitive marketplaces.

Some have raised questions about waivers that were recently granted to companies in California. So there’s no confusion, here are the facts:

A company called Flex Plan Services is a third-party administrator that provides benefit administration services for employers in a number of states, including: California, Washington, Alaska, and Georgia. One type of plan they administer is known as a health reimbursement arrangements (HRA or employer contributions to a tax free account). Many of the company’s clients are hotels, restaurants and home health agencies, all of whom employ low-wage workers.

On March 23, Flex Plan Services submitted 92 waiver requests on behalf of 45 employer clients. On April 4, 2011, HHS approved the request.

HHS applied the same standard to the application from Flex Plan Services that it uses when reviewing any application for a temporary waiver. Waivers are only available if the plan certifies that a waiver is necessary to prevent either a large increase in premiums or a significant decrease in access to coverage.

In addition, enrollees must be informed that their plan offers coverage with a restricted annual limit.

No other provision of the Affordable Care Act is affected by these waivers: they only apply to the annual limit policy.

The Affordable Care Act puts an end to many of the worst insurance company practices including refusing to sell a policy to a family because someone had cancer or a child has asthma; cancelling coverage when a patient files claims because of an unintentional mistake in their paperwork; and slapping annual or lifetime limits on how much care you can receive. When these rules are fully in place in 2014, our country will be much better off and the cost of coverage will be within reach for the millions of Americans who now live day to day without coverage, worrying about an injury or an illness that could plunge them into bankruptcy. To get from today’s broken system to tomorrow’s patient-centered system takes time and patience through a reasonable transition period. But, together, we will get there.

Richard Sorian is the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


Do you guys understand that in 2014, the creation of the insurance marketplace will start where, as a result, open competition (right? free markets? liberty? Patriots? ) will lower healthcare insurance costs allowing companies to follow the regulations as proposed by HCR? Until these marketplaces are in place, companies have the ability to seek waivers. This has been part of reform since the beginning.

Mandates and marketplaces are the cornerstones of HCR. It is not something that is done overnight though. The administration has estimated that it will take until 2014 to effectively create the marketplaces where companies can begin to shop for lower premiums.

This is really commonsense.

[NCRAVEN]

Okay class, your conservative mindlessness has gone on too long. It has been funny to read your comments but allow me to, once again, introduce you to reality:

You mean the reality of the question I asked on the Global warming thread that you've ignored, after stating"Now watch the trend of this thread. This has happen 3 or 4 times in the past 3 to 4 years I have been posting here. This topic comes up...someone demands a link that means something from me...I provide it and there is no response and all the deniers just go away."

because on their own they would likely be shut out of the individual market or face unaffordable options. To do that, the Affordable Care Act allows the Department of Health and Human Services to issue temporary waivers from the annual limit provision of the law if it would disrupt access to existing insurance arrangements or adversely affect premiums, causing people to lose coverage.

But... but "“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you,” First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.” -Barack Obama

[4G63]

So they're not contributing their part to build up this beast? AWESOME!!!

I can see the O-care spin machine is out in full force!

[AirFlacco]

You mean Galen?

[Galen Sevinne]

You guys need to learn to cross reference your ideas. For example if you think there is some crazy conspiracy regarding the waivers...Google something like Obama waivers hcr or something. There is a good chance if somewhere in the first couple links there are "factchecker" type links or only links from the same partisan blogs, you are very likely being duped.

The amount of time you guys are spending posting about nonesense is less time you guys can actually learn about what is really going on.

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[AirFlacco]

New Hampshire could be the next state to get a waiver and see why. We posted this would
happen when Congress debated the law and during the hometown meetings.


http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch...-new-hampshire


What's a few hundred more waivers amongst friends?

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybens..._among_friends


Give it up Galen. Everyone is laughing at you again.

[AirFlacco]

TL:

Per your question about unions. I found this posted on scout.


As of March 7th, the number of Obamacare waivers granted to labor unions was 269.

And, of course, the lawmakers who passed this abomination are waived from its grasp