Obama Regime Desperate to Neutralize Waiver Issue

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

The Obama regime is pulling the plug on ObamaCare waivers in September.

Having lost the healthcare debate, but still burdened with the devastating record of being responsible for this mess- their plan was to soften the blow with waivers.

Now, with nearly 2,000 waivers, they know that this special treatment is garnering some bad press-- they're ENDING the waiver practice. Those that got 'em, got 'em, but no new waivers...

This means McDonald's and other big companies will be DROPPING employee healthcare.

What a disaster.

So, now the Obama regme is stuck with the bad politics of ObamaCare, the disasterous politics of "waivers for favors" and in an attempt to neutralize it as an issue-- they're stuck saddling employers with the disasterous results of ObamaCare as being less politically damaging than issuing new waivers.

Goodbye Obama.

Goodbye ObamaCare.

[EVT1]

Say goodbye to shitty overpriced yet worthless health plans. 2014 and full implementation of reform can't come soon enough.

[marshabar1]

Can't imagine people voting for more of the same.

[EVT1]

They don't have to- it's law.

[marshabar1]

Jun 21, 2011 9:33:19 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

Say goodbye to shitty overpriced yet worthless health plans. 2014 and full implementation of reform can't come soon enough.

Home: Little Rock, Ark.

Age: 61

Employment: Consultant to nonprofit groups.

Household income: $55,000, including wife's earnings.

Coverage: Uninsured since COBRA coverage from a previous job expired in May of 2009.

Nishimura, a self-employed consultant, has been without health coverage for almost two years. A provision in the national health care law gave his state $46 million to insure people like him who've been denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. He has high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels.

Nishimura considered the state program's coverage, but it was too expensive, he said. He would have paid $7,500 a year in premiums and there was a $1,000 deductible, meaning he would have had to pay the first $1,000 out of his own pocket before benefits kicked in.

"It's just not affordable," he said. "It didn't suit my circumstance. I'm happy about the health law and I'm sure it's doing great things for some people, but it didn't fit me."

Nishimura is generally healthy and has low health care costs. He's not yet old enough for Medicare. He'd like to buy catastrophic coverage that would protect him from going bankrupt if he had a serious illness or accident.

"My view is that there are a wide range of health situations out here," he said. "The health reform bill immediately addresses those that are sick now and need coverage now." He has no problem with that.

"As more features of the legislation kick in and we look to improve the bill, maybe we'll get around to designing more health care alternatives that are affordable and give folks the flexibility to make life choices without concerns about losing health insurance coverage or jeopardizing their financial security," Nishimura said.

trib.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/article_2382073e-d35a-57f0-836f-1f8d188d93d6.html

[marshabar1]

David W. Brown

Home: Philadelphia

Age: 48

Employment: General manager of WURD radio, president of BrownPartners, an advertising and marketing agency. He pays in $150,000 in annual wages.

Household income: $100,000 including wife's earnings.

Coverage: Provides health, dental and vision coverage to employees of ad agency, but he and his wife get health coverage through his second job at the radio station.

In the past two years, Brown had to lay off three of his seven employees and get a second job. He still provides health insurance as a benefit for the remaining employees at his ad agency. For his own family's health insurance, he now relies on Philadelphia's WURD radio, where he took a job as general manager.

His daughters, ages 18 and 21, are on the family health plan, and will be able to stay on it if they need to through age 26 because of the Affordable Care Act. "That's very helpful," Brown said.

He doesn't know yet whether his business will qualify for a tax credit worth up to 35 percent of the company's health insurance premium costs, but he hopes it will. His tax preparer is looking into it. A qualifying employer must pay average annual wages below $50,000 per employee, so his business may indeed qualify.

Brown feels frustrated by the continued battle in Congress over the health law and worries that it will hurt "people who are vulnerable." As a businessman, he's looking for stability.

"This kind of political wrangling doesn't help us in business," Brown said. "If you're waiting to see if something will happen, you can't plan."

[marshabar1]

The federally funded pre-existing conditions health insurance now available in most if not all states is a dismal failure. People who need it cannot afford it. Nobody is buying it. To help sales the federal government launched an expensive ad campaign. I've never seen an ad though. And the policies are still not selling.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jun 21, 2011 9:33:19 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

Say goodbye to shitty overpriced yet worthless health plans. 2014 and full implementation of reform can't come soon enough.

It'll NEVER going to see the light of day. The entire law has already been voided in a 72 page decision by a federal judge.

With the "individual mandate" certain of being struck down by SCOTUS, the big issue is going to be the absense of a severability clause. Will the court make-it-up-as-they-go and fudge it because Congress "must have intended" to include the clause, or will they follow the law and strike down the entire law?

My money is on following the law. I would even say that Kagan and Sotomayor will surprise some people. They have their reputations to think about-- how they will be perceived by posterity. Do they want to so politicize the court that they'll forever be viewed as liberal hacks and political operatives rather than thoughtful, independent jurists? They've got a choice to make in that regard, and I think there's a good chance that now that they're insulated from the fallout of letting down the far left- they may just do the right thing.

[marshabar1]

Jun 21, 2011 9:38:12 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

They don't have to- it's law.

I mean more of the same Obama. ;D

[dancinmama]

It has already been repealed in the House; don't know where they are with it in the Senate - I thought they were just a few votes away from being able to get it passed. Of course Obama will veto.

[ed1066]

Great profiles of those individuals, Marsha, thanks for posting those. Those hardworking, employed, upright taxpayers are exactly the people the Democrats want to stick it to with this health care scam...

[zipity]

The Obama regime is pulling the plug on ObamaCare waivers in September.

Having lost the healthcare debate, but still burdened with the devastating record of being responsible for this mess- their plan was to soften the blow with waivers.

Now, with nearly 2,000 waivers, they know that this special treatment is garnering some bad press-- they're ENDING the waiver practice. Those that got 'em, got 'em, but no new waivers...


It's DEATH PANELS all over again. Is this all the pubs have left to hold on to? Waivers. Only two reasons for having this conversation, either the OP is hoping readers won't go through the trouble of googling the issue and finding the facts OR the OP is following the lead of Sarah Palin when she made an issue of "death panels". Just say something stupid over and over until people who can't or don't want to read believe you. The waivers were built into the law to protect low income workers until 2014 when they would be eligible for low cost health care. Annual limits are being phased out and the 'waiver' allows a company a 1 year deferment from compliance. The waiver needs to be applied for each year and estimates show that most companies who need the waiver for 2013 have already applied and received them.

Death panels.... That and Romney is all the pubs have left.

[djAdvocate]

Jun 21, 2011 9:25:05 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

The Obama regime is pulling the plug on ObamaCare waivers in September.

Having lost the healthcare debate, but still burdened with the devastating record of being responsible for this mess- their plan was to soften the blow with waivers.

Now, with nearly 2,000 waivers, they know that this special treatment is garnering some bad press-- they're ENDING the waiver practice. Those that got 'em, got 'em, but no new waivers...

This means McDonald's and other big companies will be DROPPING employee healthcare.

What a disaster.

So, now the Obama regme is stuck with the bad politics of ObamaCare, the disasterous politics of "waivers for favors" and in an attempt to neutralize it as an issue-- they're stuck saddling employers with the disasterous results of ObamaCare as being less politically damaging than issuing new waivers.

Goodbye Obama.

Goodbye ObamaCare.

you sound like an Obama supporter: more hopeful than rational.

[floodofsantorum]

Macro!