Obamacare Waivers over 1,000, and Includes State of Maine

By Douglas V. Gibbs

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why are so many waivers being granted?

The number of temporary healthcare reform waivers granted by the Obama administration to organizations has climbed to more than 1,000. In addition to those waivers, the federal government granted the State of Maine a waiver regarding a key provision in Obamacare because it could destabilize the state’s market for individual health insurance.

The waivers are being sought because when businesses fall under the weight of Obamacare regulations, they are unable to continue providing health insurance coverage to their workers.

But that is the whole point of the health care reform law. It is designed to put the private industry out of business so that the only possible avenue is a single payer system, which would essentially nationalize American health care.

In other words, the remedy, according to the Left, of that fact that there are corrupt insurance companies is to replace them with a corrupt government guided by the leftist Democrats.

The reasonable question would be, then, "If the system is broke, why keep the same system and simply change the payer from insurance companies to the federal government?"

Obamacare is forcing companies (when they don't have a waiver) to drop health care coverage because, as Sebelius has indicated, there “will be zero tolerance” for “falsely blaming premium increases” on Obamacare, and in addition, any profit is not tolerated by the leftist overlords. The federal government is now telling private insurance how it is supposed to spend its profits. There's a requirement in Obamacare that private insurance spend 80 to 85% of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement. In the long run, that will run those companies out of business. . . as designed. Obamacare is designed to kill the private sector, so that government controlled health care can fill the void, and be forced upon the American People.

Obamacare has turned Secretary Sebelius into judge, jury, and executioner. The bureaucratic powers of Obamacare is devastating. If people realized how incredibly tyrannical Obamacare is, they'd be speaking even louder against it.

Hence, the reason for the waivers. Obama did not wish you to notice the insidiousness of the health care reform law until his second term, when all bets are off and he can shift into high gear with his transformation of America into a socialist country. Therefore, he has to fend off the damaging effects of Obamacare. This is being done by granting temporary waivers, thereby delaying the inevitable collapse of the private system until beyond 2012.

The liberal left's vision of health care is based on the premise that the federal government must be the controlling agency over health care financing and delivery across the country. But to do this, the private companies must be put out of business. The waivers are an admittance of how damaging Obamacare is. If it was a good program, would they need over a thousand waivers?

So, while the federal government works to gain more control, and wield a broader authority to achieve government control over the system while trying to hide the reality of the insidiousness of the law, waivers are being issued right and left. It buys time, so that after 2012 they can truly bureaucratize health care, which will be implemented by public servants.

Constitutionally, however, this whole health care law is against what the Founding Fathers intended. No place in the Constitution is the authority given to the federal government to insert itself into the health care system. If the founders wanted something like this, wouldn't they have initiated a federal health care system themselves?

The Maine waiver, however, adds an even bigger concern. Federally, states are supposed to be treated uniformly. So, from a Constitutional angle, if Maine can be granted a waiver, then all of the states must have that opportunity.

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Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000 - The Hill

Maine granted waiver from federal health care overhaul provision - The Daily Caller