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The Spectacle Blog
An Obama administration official on Wednesday confirmed that four states — including Florida, Tennessee and Ohio — have been granted waivers from the regulatory requirements of the national health care law.
Steve Larsen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, confirmed the news under questioning from Rep. Cliff Stearns at an oversight hearing for the House Energy and Commerce committee.
According to Larsen, the waivers have been granted to states that have programs allowing or requiring the kind of limited medical coverage plans that would otherwise be prohibited by ObamaCare. He said the waivers are good for one year and would not neccesarily apply to all plans in the states outside the state-based programs.
While he said there was also a fourth state that was granted a waiver, he could not recall off the top of his head which state.
UPDATE: The fourth state is New Jersey.
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jamezbelly| 2.16.11 @ 11:25AM
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HopeChangeInAZ| 2.16.11 @ 11:30AM
It continues to amaze me how many waivers continue to be granted for this debacle healthcare law. I suspect that this will only help justify the supreme court ruling that will eventually overturn this horrible law. Afterall, something has to be terrible wrong with a law when you have to exempt so many people from it.
HopeChangeInFL| 2.16.11 @ 11:38AM
Great comment! and it gives me more hope that this law will be struck down and buried
Yosemeti Sam| 2.16.11 @ 11:37AM
" ... including Florida, Tennessee and Ohio ...."
Um, Florida and Ohio?
Why, they just happen to have BIGGIN electoral votes. What a coincidence.
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:31PM
The big Zero is due in Cleveland tomorrow. Trust me. The comments at the local paper's website are absolutely SCATHING ... Funny how a state that voted for him (intentional small h), would rather he not fly by and bring Kid Dennis with him .... Sherrod Brown? OMG the triple crown of effete and ignorant with a little arrogance on the side. A dish best served .... not at all!
noislamocommie| 2.16.11 @ 11:50AM
I'm hoping states can waiver out of the globalist immigration policies that are bringing in good'ol Somali boys that fly back home for Jihad training and gazillions of Mexicans sucking our Treasury dry.
tatosian| 2.16.11 @ 1:06PM
Catholic Charities handles a goodly number of Somali "refugee" cases. I don't know if a state can waiver that organization away.
Catholic Charities also supports amnesty in all forms.
Luckily there is a Hispanic conservative republican organization, iSomos Republicans!, that is busy dealing with the illegal alien problem.
Sanctuary cities? They support them.
Dream act? They support it.
Citizenship for anchor babies? They support it.
A humane, viable immigration solution in line with America's free market capitalism, labor demands and humanitarian traditions (amnesty)?
They're in favor of it.
Here's a title from an opinion piece on the site: "God and Power: Why Republicans Love Multiculturalism"
Here's a blurb for a losing congressional candidate the organization supported last cycle;
"Jose Penalosa can debate Ed Pastor in Spanish and in English. In order to win over the hearts and minds of Latinos, we should be able to articulate our ideas to our gente. After all, that’s what missionaries do when they share the gospel with others, and that strategy continues to work today when we want to persuade and convince others to understand why we do what we do."
Uh, one nation one language? They're against it?
iSomos Republicans! bears a striking resemblance to Casa de Maryland doesn't it?
Thank God they're a conservative Republican outfit.
http://somosrepublicans.com/
http://somosrepublicans.com/20.....lturalism/
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:33PM
Are you saying that charities and private organizations are best at handling this? I concur. And. Without my unwilling contributions via taxes as well. Thank you !
tatosian| 2.16.11 @ 8:04PM
In 2009, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which apparently oversees and funds the various Catholic Charities, received 58 million taxpayer dollars for migration and refugee services alone. ( http://www.nccbuscc.org/mrs/annual-report-2009.pdf )
I'm saying that charities and private organizations that avail themselves of federal dollars are best at serving their own interests. Interests which are, considering the enthusiastic support of amnesty and illegal aliens exhibited by, say, USCCB and Catholic charities, in direct opposition to the interests of the American nation.
Your contributions via taxes, unwilling or not on your part, are contributions nonetheless.
Do you suppose the conservative Republican iSomos Republican! organization approves or disapproves of those contributions?
tatosian| 2.16.11 @ 9:08PM
Interesting.
No one even mentions iSomos Republican!
vladdy| 2.16.11 @ 8:34PM
Go to the site "Refugee Resettlement Watch." They have all the goods on who's bringing these immigrants in and how you can stop it in your community.
Wayne | 2.16.11 @ 12:17PM
Since ObamaCare in VOID, the waivers are meaningless.
MGabel| 2.16.11 @ 12:34PM
What kind of governance is this?! Is Obamacare law of the land or is it not?!
By granting these waivers, how could Obama and HHS be doing anything but admitting that the law does not work?
This is an astonishingly embarrassing time in our nation's history.
Warrior | 2.16.11 @ 5:17PM
No it is not the law of the land. It was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge who also stated that the unconstitutional portion was not severable from the bill. Thus, until overturned by a higher court, the law has been ruled null and void.
Tim the Enchanter| 2.16.11 @ 12:47PM
How 'bout we waiver all 50 states?
Curtis Rasmussen| 2.16.11 @ 2:12PM
Judge Vinson already issued the waiver for all states by declaring Obamacare unconstitutional. How this administration can ignore such an important ruling and move forward as if nothing happened is appalling.
Obama shows his true colors. He is nothing more than a socialist tin pot dictator that duped the electorate of this country. hopefully, the useful idiots amongst us have realized their mistake and will vote this thin-skinned child out of office in 2012.
Warrior | 2.16.11 @ 5:19PM
Ignoring Judge Vinson's ruling is also called Contempt and charges can be brought if one of the entitities involved in the suit would bring this before the judge.
vladdy| 2.16.11 @ 8:40PM
What I can't understand is how he is doing all this, meaning where is the opposition? I don't just mean political opposition; I mean, the wealthy, inside elite who have invested interests in seeing that the US continues in its present state, with a government that follows the law?
Rather than secret information on Obama floating around, it seems that Obama (and his backers) have some kind of blackmail going against the rest of the world.
Are the combined powers of the islamic-left so strong now that there are no capitalist powers who will fight them? Or have the capitalist powers become so corrupt that only money matters, without concern for the future?
I'm not a kid anymore, and I've been politically aware long enough to know that a lot goes on "behind the scenes." But I have never seen it so one-sided, with one ideology so dominant that it seems to be crushing everything else in its path.
Strange days, indeed.
john dubose| 2.16.11 @ 5:48PM
The notion that an agency under the president's authority can "grant" exemptions from a law is almost equivalent to letting the president write laws. If this holds up, the president has gained almost dictatorial power.
danny| 2.16.11 @ 8:03PM
that's exactly right, john, and that is his ultimate goal. dictatorial power. amazing how so many can't grasp this.
Bob K.| 2.16.11 @ 6:21PM
Mr. Klein,
This is the subject of an article-not a blog. It needs to be explained in detail.
Are you going to write it?
Stephen Macklin | 2.17.11 @ 2:06PM
The cynic in me cannot help but wonder if this waiver has anything to do with Chris Christie's decision not to have NJ join in the ObamaCare suit as the 27th participating state. Or if it has anything to do with continued insistence that he will not run in 2012.