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Title: House begins probe into 222 waivers for ObamaCare
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Hot Air
URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/ ... nto-222-waivers-for-obamacare/
Published: Jan 24, 2011
Author: Hot Air
Post Date: 2011-01-24 12:40:40 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: ObamaCare, corruption
Views: 40203
Comments: 41
Fred Upton proves himself to be a multitasker this week. Earlier today, I wrote about his plan to fight the EPA on the expansion of climate-change regulation, and now Upton has his eyes trained on Health and Human Services. Upton and one of the chairs of his Energy and Commerce subcommittees have launched a probe into the 222 waivers granted by the Obama administration from ObamaCare insurance coverage mandates: On Thursday, Upton and Stearns sent CCIIO director Jay Angoff a letter with questions about the office’s structure, authority and recent decision to grant waivers throughout several industries, exempting companies from complying with the bill’s requirements. “Most troubling is that your office is currently responsible for deciding who does not have to comply with the massive new regulations imposed by the PPACA [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act],” said the letter. “Currently your office has approved waivers from the PPACA’s annual limits requirements for 222 applicants.” According to the letter, Angloff told Rep. Michael Burgess that the administration had also denied some waiver requests, but apparently didn’t elaborate on who got denied and why. Upton and Stearns want an explanation of the processes and requirements for waivers from the PPACA. They are also likely looking at denied and approved waivers to determine whether there is a fair and objective process, or if political considerations went into granting the explosion of waivers. This points out one of the “most troubling” flaws in ObamaCare, which is its absurd level of ambiguity. The law is filled with the phrase “The Secretary shall determine” where regulation is mandated by Congress. This goes beyond the sheer complexity of what Congress attempted to do and speaks directly to the manner in which it got done. The law is so ambiguous that not even the White House knows how it will get implemented, let alone the providers, insurers, and consumers of medical care. Employers have no real idea what costs will now go into hiring, which is one reason (among many) that businesses have grown reluctant to add staff. Even apart from the practical ambiguity in ObamaCare, the new system damages the principal of the rule of law. Instead of creating the regulations explicitly so that Americans could understand the costs of compliance, Congress punted most of the regulatory duties to unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch. The waivers that immediately resulted show that rather than following a rule of law, Americans must now follow a rule of bureaucratic whim. That’s one of the “most troubling” aspects of ObamaCare — and a demonstration that the 111th Session of Congress utterly abdicated its duty in favor of political expediency. If regulating one-sixth of the national economy was too complicated for Congress to do with specific laws that eliminated ambiguity, then Congress shouldn’t have taken on the task in the first place.
One day after the House voted to repeal Obamacare, some lawmakers are turning their attention toward the bureaucracy created by the bill. Reps. Fred Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Cliff Stearns, chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, are investigating the new Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO).
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa, Ferret Mike, lucysmom, go65 (#0)
Investigate all 222 wavers in a nation of millions? Way to spend tax payer money on useless probes, Republicans...... How is that for small govt?!
Just think how simple the bill could have been if it said "Medicare for all".
How would we pay for it?
The same way we pay for Medicare - a combination of premiums plus additional taxes. Those would be offset by the potential reduction versus cost of private premiums. And it would remove a huge burden from businesses by ending employer-funded healthcare, thus improving our competitive ability versus foreign markets.
What in the world could possibly make you think that government can manage your healthcare better or at less cost than you can? We are talking about the same .gov that spends $600.00 for a toilet seat aren't we? And it would remove a huge burden from businesses by ending employer-funded healthcare, thus improving our competitive ability versus foreign markets. And transfer that huge burden to citizens via higher taxes.
Compare the cost of medicare administration with that spent on private insurance. And ask your health care provider how many full-time staff he or she has to manage the myriad of different insurance claims.
False logic. A better question would be, compare the cost of current administration- including all the governmental regulations, bullshit regulations and hoop- jumping- with how truly sickening it'll be under oBUMa-care... And then tell me how government intrusion into things they don't know diddly-SHIT about has "improved" anything...? Now THAT would be a good question. But you'll never go down that path, because you're a dyed-in-the-wool SOCIALIST.
Gots ta watch them socialists, yep. Why, I asked some o thems Raccons da utter nite iffa theys was socialists and ya know what? They jus' runned the hell off. Damn. Guess that proved what them critters was. Yep, they could only be socialists ifa they done that.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest“Currently your office has approved waivers from the PPACA’s annual limits requirements for 222 applicants.”
#2. To: Godwinson (#1)
#4. To: lucysmom, go65, Godwinson (#2)
Just think how simple the bill could have been if it said "Medicare for all".
#8. To: We The People (#4)
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How would we pay for it?
#17. To: go65 (#8)
The same way we pay for Medicare - a combination of premiums plus additional taxes. Those would be offset by the potential reduction versus cost of private premiums.
#23. To: We The People (#17)
What in the world could possibly make you think that government can manage your healthcare better or at less cost than you can?
#24. To: go65 (#23)
Compare the cost of medicare administration with that spent on private insurance.
#25. To: Capitalist Eric (#24)
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