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Recently the Department of Health and Human Services granted additional waivers from the burdens of Obamacare, this time to four states. Count your blessings if you are a state employee, and live in…
I mentioned health care mandate waiver requests on Oct. 6 (two days ago). The big discussion was centered around McDonald’s and their mini-med health care programs that would not meet medical loss ratio requirements in the law. Now we learn a branch of the American Federation of Teachers – who campaigned and donated big dollars…
The “vastly popular” program known as Obamacare is now the subject of 1433 waivers covering some 3.2 million people. That is an increase of 61 new waivers since the end of April and approximately 100,000 additional employees.
Remember former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi’s (D. Ca.), famous statement about Obamacare…”we have to pass the bill before you can see what’s in it”? Apparently many in San Francisco, the heart of Ms. Pelosi’s district, have now seen what is in Obamacare, and they are not too impressed.
A provision in Obamacare would collect a fee from health insurance companies and third-party administrators (TPAs) of administrative services only (ASO a.k.a. self-insured) group health plans, to fund a reinsurance program to help “stabilize” premiums available through the exchanges. A significant number of unions are self-insured. Unions were pissed they had to pay this fee…
You will be happy to know that we are now, as of the end of February, up to 1040 waivers from Obamacare, covering some 2.62 million people. And, we have a spiffy new federal agency handling said waivers. The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, recently created by the Department of Health and Human…
why are we seeing the administration granting more and more waivers from the provisions of Obamacare?
It’s almost not worth reporting, simply because President Obama and his administration have issued so many waivers to the “no-lobbyists-in-our-administration” rule we have assumed that promise expired in month one of his reign. But another top lobbyist is now working in the White House.
When last we posted on this, 1433 waivers, covering some 3.2 million people, had been granted from the wildly popular program known as Obamacare. On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released more good news.
No real surprise here… As of the end of March the Obama administration has now granted a total of 1168 waivers from the requirements of Obamacare. This represents an increase of 129 waivers since the end of February.