How do you support Obamacare.. and then ask for a waiver for your state?

The kind of 1-year 1-issue waiver Nevada obtained was designed into health care reform to ease the transition. Let's look at the facts:

From http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/16/nevada...

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Nevada’s Insurance Division had appealed to the feds to reduce the federal requirement that health plans serving people who buy insurance on their own must spend at least 80 percent of the money they collect on medical expenses. Under the national rule, companies that don’t spend that percentage of revenue on medical costs have to cut policyholders rebate checks starting this year.

Nevada asked that requirement be reduced to 72 percent for one year, arguing that top insurance providers would be so strapped to make the payments that they’d exit the state market.

Health and Human Services didn’t fully buy that argument, but did agree to reduce the requirement to 75 percent for a year, expressing concern about what might happen to people with policies from insurers Golden Rule and Aetna if they didn’t.

Together, Golden Rule and Aetna cover 24 percent of Nevada’s insured; but they, along with Sierra Health and MEGA, which cover another 4 percent, are spending nowhere near 80 percent of revenue on health care coverage.

The change is less the feds giving underperforming insurance agencies a free pass than buying time for providers to shape up, or policyholders to ship out with reasonable warning time: Nevada has no law that says if you lose insurance because your insurer shuts down, another company has to pick you up. To prevent that, Health and Human Services determined it had to “provide the opportunity for plans with low ‘medical loss ratios’ to adjust their business models to reach 80 percent” with the reduced, 75 percent mandate for the rest of 2011 — that being the average medical loss ratio that the state’s top 10 insurers currently post.

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From http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/16/nevada...

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A waiver has a narrow and specific purpose, to give companies and unions time to change the level of benefits under their current insurance plan.

The Obama administration has granted 1,372 waivers and has denied about 100 requests. The mini-med waivers are essentially a stop-gap measure designed to keep employers from dropping health care benefits all together.

The White House explains that waivers are granted if conforming to the rules "would disrupt access to existing insurance arrangements or adversely affect premiums, causing people to lose coverage," acknowledging that the low-benefits plans are sometimes the only option that some employers can offer.

Any state that has a better plan that covers more people can get a waiver - Nevada, Hawaii, Nevada. Waivers aren't granted to states so they can opt out and not comply. They are granted to States that are already doing the job of insuring that everyone has access to health care and that the access is paid for.

I see that liberals do no longer in hassle-free terms like the reality that no longer in hassle-free terms Nevada won a State huge waiver on Obamacare, yet so did the State of latest Hampshire, so as that they hotel to denial. "President Obama’s branch of wellbeing and Human centers (HHS), headed via Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, has now granted Obamacare waivers to the finished states of Nevada and New Hampshire. In its letter to Nevada, HHS admits that, without the waiver, “there's a existence like probability” that Obamacare could bring about “marketplace destabilization, and to that end harm to customers.” to that end, to aim to maintain insurers from fleeing that state, HHS has exempted Nevada from portion of Obamacare’s long record of mandates and standards. HHS additionally admits to a “existence like probability” that Obamacare could “destabilize the guy marketplace” in New Hampshire, and has granted it a statewide waiver as nicely."

We have corrupt delegates in the Congress who have very limited intellectual abilities.

Well, he supports it for everyone else. Just like how liberals support higher taxes... on other people.