Posted on 05/17/2011 12:55:43 PM PDT by CharlyFord
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.”
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 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
As the pool gets smaller the costs for the remaining victims gets higher. Only going to be red states left in the pool before it’s all said and done.
Gee, I wonder how that happened?
What a surprise!
I mean, one MIGHT suspect that the 'waiver' is some sort of ‘payback’ from the Obama administration to some powerful, mobbed-up politician from Nevada who has been doing favors, running interference and serving as a lap-dog for the president for the last three years...
...but I just can't IMAGINE who might have been doing such a thing...
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The mob thinks Harry is a POS and takes great care to not be associated with 'it'.
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." - Josef Stalin
OK! Who's counting the votes in Nevada??
Who would vote for that POS??
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