The ObamaCare Tumble….Obama Can Now Pick & Choose Who Must Play By The Rules

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I love it…..the ObamaCare tumble: (h/t Gateway Pundit)

As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards.

The waivers have been issued in the last several weeks as part of a broader strategic effort to stave off threats by some health insurers to abandon markets, drop out of the business altogether or refuse to sell certain policies.

Among those that administration officials hoped to mollify with waivers were some big insurers, some smaller employers and McDonald’s, which went so far as to warn that the regulations could force it to strip workers of existing coverage.

At a time when the midterm elections are looming and Republicans have been vocal in campaigning against the law, reaction to the rollout has been closely watched.

To date, the administration has given about 30 insurers, employers and union plans, responsible for covering about one million people, one-year waivers on the new rules that phase out annual limits on coverage for limited-benefit plans, also known as “mini-meds.” Applicants said their premiums would increase significantly, in some cases doubling or more.

These early exemptions offer the first signs of how the administration may tackle an even more difficult hurdle: the resistance from insurers and others against proposed regulations that will determine how much insurers spend on consumers’ health care versus administrative overhead, a major cornerstone of the law.

David Whelan asks the obvious question. If all it takes for these companies to get out from under the ObamaCare monstrosity is to ask…can individuals ask and receive the same kind of generosity from our Socialist leaders?

I kinda doubt it.

Why are these 30 companies getting waivers and not all the others? It seems Obama and pals have found out first hand that this law is just unworkable as is. Just a matter of time before the obvious arbitrariness will be pointed out by the other million companies not getting a waiver.

What a clusterf&%k this Administration has been.

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Oh yes….equality for everyone.

The democrats can now pick and choose who to spiff.

How about big Democrap donors get waivers? Republicans don’t get any?

According to the US Constitution only Congress can make a law and only the Courts can interpret it.

Obama turns all that on its head.

He is both making laws…..exceptions to rules are, in effect, addendum to the law
AND he is interpreting law….deciding who will obey here or there or anywhere.

Anyway, this is NOT the only time Obama has done this.

…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.Source

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First, let’s point out that the law turned out to be unworkable, almost before it even got started. Dictating percentages for administration costs in insurance plans isn’t the job of the federal government anyway, but more to the point, that issue is obviously not determinative in value to the consumer — as these waivers proved. This shows what happens when people with no experience in an industry decide that they can construct it better than the market has structured itself.

The proper action would have been to repeal at least this portion of the law in order to give a level playing field to everyone. By granting a few dozen waivers at the outset, though, the White House has amplified the uncertainty and arbitrariness in ObamaCare even further. At least insurers and employers had a figure that they could use for planning. Now there is no standard at all, except for whatever Kathleen Sebelius decides she likes — and whom she wants to favor.

The Rule of Law depends on an environment with clear regulation and unbiased enforcement. From the start, ObamaCare lacked any clarity in regulation. Congress filled the bill with the phrase “The Secretary shall determine” in place of establishing rules and regulations for the massive regulatory regime Congress created. Now, the White House has added arbitrary enforcement to uncertain regulation and opaque processes. This is not the Rule of Law, but the Whim of Autocracy.Source

Yep, more power concentration going to the government. I guess this is just another example of us “crazy” right wingers distrusting our government…

Election year politics….Dems are simply trying to minimize the damage come November…Good luck with that strategy….

Obama Can Now Pick & Choose Who Must Play By The Rules

Now there’s a shocker…..

In “Atlas Shrugged” this is labeled the “politics of pull”. Those with friends and connections are exempted from regulations while others are crushed.

In the non-fiction world we call it Chicago Politics.

crony Obammunism.

First thought:

Corrupt banana republic…

Second thought:

the expression “arbitrary and capricious” also comes to mind…

A story in Murdoch’s Post predictably amplified by FOX and Limbaugh. Can anyone cite a real source?

What a clusterf&%k this Administration has been.

If the republicans happen to regain the upper hand, just wait ’til you see them trying to get down to brass tacks. They’ve apparently convinced a lot of very angry, increasingly short-fused citizens that they’ve got all the answers.

You just don’t get it, do you Greg?