Oh! And in today's all volunteer Army, it's also about Accountability.....
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]>wrote: > It's about discipline, order, command, and kicking our enemies' asses Euwe. > > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, euwe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> if war is so good, why do we have a penalty for desertion? >> >> On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, dick <[email protected]> wrote: >> > * REVIEW & OUTLOOK >> > < >> http://online.wsj.com/public/search?article-doc-type=%7BReview+%26+Ou... >> .> >> > * OCTOBER 20, 2010 >> > >> > ObamaCare, for Some >> > >> > Step right up and get your waiver. >> > >> > * Article >> > < >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870379410457554605234324...> >> > >> > * Comments (74) >> > < >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870379410457554605234324...> >> > >> > more in Opinion >> > <http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-opinion-commentary.html> � >> > >> > * Email >> > < >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870379410457554605234324...> >> > * Print >> > < >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870379410457554605234324...> >> > * >> > >> > Save This >> > < >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870379410457554605234324...> >> > ? 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In the clearest evidence so far that ObamaCare is harmful in >> > practice and an election-year liability, the Obama Administration has >> > decided not to enforce some of the law's "consumer protections." At >> > least when the results are politically embarrassing. >> > >> > Over the last several weeks the Health and Human Services Department has >> > granted dozens of temporary waivers to certain ObamaCare mandates so >> > that insurers and businesses won't drop or cancel coverage. The most >> > conspicuous went to McDonald's to protect the "mini-med" plans for some >> > 30,000 hourly workers from a rule that prohibits annual restrictions on >> > benefits. Mini-med policies offer modest coverage at low premiums and >> > other low-wage fast-food chains like Jack in the Box and Denny's have >> > been granted waivers as well. >> > >> > Cigna, Aetna and a few other insurers have been given hall passes to >> > continue selling mini-meds. Another went to the United Federation of >> > Teachers Welfare Fund. The New York union offers city teachers >> > supplemental drug coverage that would have been banned under the new >> rules. >> > >> > At least this sudden regulatory flexibility is protecting the coverage >> > that people have today, as President Obama promised. But it isn't much >> > of an improvement if HHS retreats only after a national political >> > blow-up. After all, the essential point of the regulations was to >> > destroy mini-med plans and other types of coverage that Democrats claim >> > are insufficiently generous. Democrats from Mr. Obama on down call these >> > rules "the patients' bill of rights," but people don't regularly need >> > exemptions from a bill of rights. >> > >> > And is it really better that HHS will impose destructive regulations and >> > then decide on ad hoc basis who they'll hit? This is an invitation to >> > play favorites, exact political retribution and pursue whatever >> > arbitrary goals HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her successors >> > happen to hold. ObamaCare amnesty shouldn't go merely to the CEOs who >> > can get White House aide Valerie Jarrett on the horn. >> > >> > Recall, too, that the original McDonald's memo the Journal exposed was >> > actually warning about the future damage that will be caused by the >> > forthcoming definition of the "medical loss ratio," that is, what >> > insurers are allowed to count as spending on health-care services. HHS >> > said in a statement that Ms. Sebelius has the power to waive those rules >> > too when they come out and "we fully intend to exercise her discretion >> > under the new law to address the special circumstances of mini-med plans >> > in the medical loss ratio calculations." >> > >> > In other words, HHS is pre-emptively declaring that it will grant a >> > special dispensation to rules that haven't even been finalized. Wouldn't >> > it be better to write less destructive rules in the first place? Or why >> > not give everyone a waiver from everything? >> > >> > The reality is that ObamaCare assigns HHS vast, undefined new powers >> > that will mean whatever Ms. Sebelius and her team decides they will >> > mean. The bill uses the phrase "the Secretary shall" or one of its >> > variants more than a thousand times. Earlier this year, the >> > Congressional Research Service found that ObamaCare created a "currently >> > unknowable" number of new boards, commissions and offices, adding that >> > "it is currently impossible to know how much influence they will >> > ultimately have." >> > >> > HHS is also not building this bureaucratic apparatus in a transparent >> > way. Ten of the 12 new regulations that HHS has issued in the last six >> > months have been "interim final rules" that are not open to the ordinary >> > process of public comment. >> > >> > The White House had to play favorites with Senators and special >> > interests to pass ObamaCare, and its implementation is no less ugly. But >> > the waiver wave is most telling for what it says about the architects of >> > this plan. By bending their own rules, they're conceding their >> > destructiveness. >> > >> > Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A20 >> > >> > Copyright 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 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