Why Is This A Law?

The waiver count on ObamaCare to date is over 1000 (actually 1040+, including 351,000 people in The United Federation of Teachers). However, the HHS government site has yet to update the actual numbers.

PORTLAND, Maine – The federal government Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, citing the likelihood that enforcement could destabilize the state’s market for individual health insurance.

The U.S. Health and Human Services department said in a letter it would waive the requirement that insurers spend 80 cents to 85 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement. Instead, the letter said, the state could maintain its 65 percent standard for three years, with the caveat that HHS intends to review the figures after two years.

The decision makes Maine the first state to receive a waiver of the requirement. Similar requests are pending from Kentucky, Nevada and New Hampshire. […]

Meanwhile, Obama’s lawyers finally got around to filing their appeal of the (Florida) federal judge’s ruling ObamaCare un-Constitutional …

(Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a judge’s ruling in Florida that struck down its landmark healthcare overhaul law as unconstitutional because it required Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a penalty.

President Barack Obama’s Justice Department filed its notice of appeal and the case will go to the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta. The fight over the law is expected to reach the Supreme Court. […]

The fact is, all these waivers are out there for the MSM to pick-up on and report (and would if a republican President and Congress had passed a new law but were giving waiver after waiver, especially to their political supporters) … but he’s their favorite dictator, so they don’t.

Do the rest of us have to wait for the SCOTUS for our ObamaCare waivers?

Updated:

Time for the “Death Panel” on ObamaCare.