ObamaCare Waivers Now Top 1,000; HHS To Wait Before Taking Your Health Care
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The health care reform that we were told that everyone wanted by the Democrats keeps requiring more and more waivers. The line by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that really gets me is that they are waiting until ObamaCare is fully implemented before taking away our current health care options. From The Hill:
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.
In order to avoid disruption in the insurance market, the healthcare overhaul gives HHS the power to grant waivers to firms that cannot meet new annual coverage limits in 2011. The waivers have typically been granted to so-called “mini-med” plans that offer limited annual coverage — as low as $2,000 — that would fall short of meeting the new annual coverage floor of $750,000 in 2011.
“We don’t want to take away people’s health insurance before they have some realistic other choices,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview with The Hill earlier this year…
We know that the “choice” they want is a government run single payer plan. Some choice isn’t it?
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