As if the unseemly process involved in ramming ObamaCare through Congress despite the wishes of the American people was not bad enough, it turns out that the Marxist scheme is so flawed that it was necessary to issue more than 2,000 waivers to avoid even greater disaster.
Remember, this is Obama’s Signature Legislation, which was supposed to add 30 million people to the insured while reducing overall health care costs.
With that outrageous, illogical assumption as its base, it should come as no surprise that ObamaCare is so unwieldy that hundreds of businesses simply cannot implement the Marxist fairy tale.
Thus, the creation of Obama’s waiver-granting bureaucracy to dole out life jackets for businesses that would otherwise be forced to drop employee heath coverage altogether.
Unfortunately, it appears as though the rampant fraud, back room manipulations and corruption which gave birth to ObamaCare are also present in the administration of waivers.
For example, businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional district have been granted an unusually high number of waivers.
And this from Nevada, in part, (see reference)where the entire state has been granted a partial exemption:
Nevada got a partial waiver from the health care law — a significant development that Democrats are dismissing as par for the course and Republicans are claiming as a political victory.
The Health and Human Services Department announced late Friday that Nevada had secured a statewide waiver from certain implementation requirements of the Obama administration’s health care law, because forcing them through, the department found, “may lead to the destabilization of the individual market.”
The announcement makes Nevada one of only three states to have compliance requirements under the health care bill waived.
For Republicans, the waiver is proof of what they’ve been arguing all along — that Obama’s health care law was never going to work and has to go.
“It is becoming increasingly clear how flawed this law really is,” Nevada Sen. Dean Heller said in a statement Monday. “Not only did it cut a half trillion dollars from Medicare, impacting thousands of Nevada’s seniors, now the law would have driven health insurers out of our state if a reprieve had not been granted.
“This is why ‘ObamaCare’ will not work for Nevada,” Heller said."
Given the already tarnished image of ObamaCare, it is essential that the following questions be asked by independent professionals:
•Are waivers granted based on logical rationale, or are political cronyism and favoritism used?
•Are powerful politicians like Pelosi and Harry Reid able to exert undue influence on the waiver-granting process?
•What checks and balances are in place to protect against corruption and fraud?
These questions should be investigated by Congress as soon as possible. It may well be that without corruption and fraud, ObamaCare will not even be able to get off the ground!
Entire State of Nevada Granted ObamaCare Waivers! Time for Congressional Probe into "Waiver-Gate"!
Reference:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/16/nevada-secures-partial-waiver-federal-health-care-/
