The federal government Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, citing the likelihood that enforcement could destabilize the state's market for individual health insurance.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41978227
Showing posts with label waivers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waivers. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000
The number of temporary healthcare reform waivers granted by the Obama administration to organizations climbed to more than 1,000, according to new numbers disclosed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS posted 126 new waivers on Friday, bringing the total to 1,040 organizations that have been granted a one-year exemption from a new coverage requirement included in the healthcare reform law enacted almost a year ago. Waivers have become a hot-button issue for Republicans, eager to expose any vulnerabilities in the reform law.
READ MORE: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/147715-number-of-healthcare-reform-law-waivers-climbs-above-1000
HHS posted 126 new waivers on Friday, bringing the total to 1,040 organizations that have been granted a one-year exemption from a new coverage requirement included in the healthcare reform law enacted almost a year ago. Waivers have become a hot-button issue for Republicans, eager to expose any vulnerabilities in the reform law.
READ MORE: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/147715-number-of-healthcare-reform-law-waivers-climbs-above-1000
Friday, January 28, 2011
HHS Triples ObamaCare Waivers; GOP to Investigate
OBAMACARE WAIVERS NOW TOTAL 733
Just one week after Republicans on Capitol Hill announced plans to investigate health care reform waivers granted to certain companies and labor organizations, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services announced additional waivers for more than 500 other groups. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hhs-triples-obamacare-waivers-gop-to-investigate/
Just one week after Republicans on Capitol Hill announced plans to investigate health care reform waivers granted to certain companies and labor organizations, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services announced additional waivers for more than 500 other groups. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hhs-triples-obamacare-waivers-gop-to-investigate/
Friday, November 19, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Citizen Link
Law of Economics Wreaking Havoc on Health Care Law
http://www.citizenlink.com/2010/10/law-of-economics-wreaking-havoc-on-health-care-law/
Posted by Catherine Snow
The utopian promises made by President Obama about the health care overhaul are proving –rapidly – to be everything but what was pledged.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently granted 30 large companies – including McDonald’s – special waivers from adhering to certain mandates in the health care law. Positioned by HHS as a step to provide “continuous coverage,” policy watchers call it a move to avoid nearly one million workers from being left without coverage – right before the election.
Philip Klein wrote today on The American Spectator:
“Yet by granting waivers to avert PR nightmares, like the news of McDonald’s dropping coverage, it also adds another disturbing element to the ObamaCare regime. Those companies with the best access and lobbyists are in the best position to be granted a waiver. Bureaucrats can choose to apply a different set of rules to different businesses, and in some cases those rules can determine whether a given business survives. Thus, the waivers themselves are another example of the arbitrary nature of government power.”
MORE CRACKS IN THE LAW
In today’s commentary, “Congress Can’t Repeal Economics,” author and FOX Business Network host John Stossel aptly pointed out that the laws of economics have “struck back.”
“Health insurers Wellpoint, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and CoventryOne will stop writing policies for all children. Why? Because Obamacare requires that they insure already sick children for the same price as well children.
“That sounds compassionate, but—in case Obamacare fanatics haven’t noticed—sick children need more medical care. Insurance is about risk, and already sick children are 100 percent certain to be sick when their coverage begins. So if the government mandates that insurance companies cover sick children at the lower well-children price, insurers will quit the market rather than sandbag their shareholders. This is not callousness—it’s fiduciary responsibility. Insurance companies are not charities.
“So, thanks to the compassionate Congress and president, parents of sick children will be saved from expensive insurance—by being unable to obtain any insurance! That’s how government compassion works.
“In 2014, the same rule will kick in for adults. You now know what to expect.”
UTOPIA UNRAVELS
After signing health care into law on March 25, Obama went on to chastise Republicans, conservatives and Tea Party participants:
“From this day forward, all of the cynics, all the naysayers – they’re going to have to confront the reality of what this reform is and what it isn’t… this isn’t a government takeover of our health care system.
“They’ll see that if Americans like their doctor, they’ll be keeping their doctor. You like your plan? You’ll be keeping your plan. No one is taking that away from you…”
However, not every liberal agreed.
Democrat pollsters Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen predicted the Nov. 2 fallout:
“Bluntly put, this is the political reality: First, the battle for public opinion has been lost. Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. Wishing, praying or pretending will not change these outcomes.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read John Stossel’s article, “Congress Can’t Repeal Economics.”
http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/07/congress-cant-repeal-economics
http://www.citizenlink.com/2010/10/law-of-economics-wreaking-havoc-on-health-care-law/
Posted by Catherine Snow
The utopian promises made by President Obama about the health care overhaul are proving –rapidly – to be everything but what was pledged.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently granted 30 large companies – including McDonald’s – special waivers from adhering to certain mandates in the health care law. Positioned by HHS as a step to provide “continuous coverage,” policy watchers call it a move to avoid nearly one million workers from being left without coverage – right before the election.
Philip Klein wrote today on The American Spectator:
“Yet by granting waivers to avert PR nightmares, like the news of McDonald’s dropping coverage, it also adds another disturbing element to the ObamaCare regime. Those companies with the best access and lobbyists are in the best position to be granted a waiver. Bureaucrats can choose to apply a different set of rules to different businesses, and in some cases those rules can determine whether a given business survives. Thus, the waivers themselves are another example of the arbitrary nature of government power.”
MORE CRACKS IN THE LAW
In today’s commentary, “Congress Can’t Repeal Economics,” author and FOX Business Network host John Stossel aptly pointed out that the laws of economics have “struck back.”
“Health insurers Wellpoint, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and CoventryOne will stop writing policies for all children. Why? Because Obamacare requires that they insure already sick children for the same price as well children.
“That sounds compassionate, but—in case Obamacare fanatics haven’t noticed—sick children need more medical care. Insurance is about risk, and already sick children are 100 percent certain to be sick when their coverage begins. So if the government mandates that insurance companies cover sick children at the lower well-children price, insurers will quit the market rather than sandbag their shareholders. This is not callousness—it’s fiduciary responsibility. Insurance companies are not charities.
“So, thanks to the compassionate Congress and president, parents of sick children will be saved from expensive insurance—by being unable to obtain any insurance! That’s how government compassion works.
“In 2014, the same rule will kick in for adults. You now know what to expect.”
UTOPIA UNRAVELS
After signing health care into law on March 25, Obama went on to chastise Republicans, conservatives and Tea Party participants:
“From this day forward, all of the cynics, all the naysayers – they’re going to have to confront the reality of what this reform is and what it isn’t… this isn’t a government takeover of our health care system.
“They’ll see that if Americans like their doctor, they’ll be keeping their doctor. You like your plan? You’ll be keeping your plan. No one is taking that away from you…”
However, not every liberal agreed.
Democrat pollsters Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen predicted the Nov. 2 fallout:
“Bluntly put, this is the political reality: First, the battle for public opinion has been lost. Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. Wishing, praying or pretending will not change these outcomes.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read John Stossel’s article, “Congress Can’t Repeal Economics.”
http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/07/congress-cant-repeal-economics
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