Nevada secures partial waiver from federal health care law

[The Northerner]

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 on 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.

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.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/16/nevada-secures-partial-waiver-federal-health-care-/

[woo me with science]

1. How many is that now? nt

[mmonk]

2. Then we ought to get a waiver for single payer.

Turn about is fair play.

[jwirr]

3. Bernie's state already has.

[mmonk]

4. I thought not everything had been ironed out for that yet.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I don't think it's final yet, but in the works....

I wonder how Hawaii is handling this? IIRC, they already have "single payer" of sorts. It is at least universal coverage.

[mmonk]

6. Seems to me they shouldn't have to fix anything if what they have

is already working.