Uh... we should be thanking *Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden* for single payer in America.

[joshcryer]

76. Ron Wyden was the author of 1332. Your OP is a lie.

Practically all administrative acts require waivers in one form or another. Please think. 1332 was, in fact, rather typical waiver language. What was special about it is that it required whatever waived plans to meet ACA standards or be better.

“The federal government doesn’t have all the answers,” explains Sen. Ron Wyden, the author of Section 1332. “If states are exasperated or frustrated with one provision or another, this is a safety valve. It gives them running room.”

Even the Senate bill’s most cheerful supporters will grant that the legislation is imperfect. There are places where it doesn’t go far enough. There are places where it goes too far. There are places where it’s poorly worded. The problem is that it’s hard to say in advance what those places are.

Wyden’s contribution allows states to wiggle out of the consequences of those imperfections. Rather than having to go back through the Congress and the Senate to change a part of the bill, a state that finds the bill’s language inefficient for achieving the bill’s goals can simply petition the secretary of Health and Human Services for a waiver. No new legislation needed. No filibusters or holds to evade. No national agenda to contend with.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/the_case_for_moving_forward.html

But oh no, far be it for Obama to get any credit whatsoever for putting in a poison pill to the ACA that would make it pave the way for single payer.

b) Granting of Waivers.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary may grant a request for a
waiver under subsection (a)(1) only if the Secretary determines
that the State plan--
(A) will provide coverage that is at least as
comprehensive as the coverage defined in section 1302(b)
and offered through Exchanges established under this
title as certified by Office of the Actuary of the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services based on
sufficient data from the State and from comparable
States about their experience with programs created by
this Act and the provisions of this Act that would be
waived;
(B) will provide coverage and cost sharing
protections against excessive out-of-pocket spending
that are at least as affordable as the provisions of
this title would provide;
(C) will provide coverage to at least a comparable
number of its residents as the provisions of this title
would provide; and
(D) will not increase the Federal deficit.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/html/PLAW-111publ148.htm

The real irony is that the most hated Obama defender here predicted this outcome: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002482074

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002888869

As did I, of course in this thread with our favorite disruptor: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002476222

All the while ratfuckers continue to shit on Obama and the Democrats. (Note to jury, please click the Wikipedia link, "ratfucking" means dirty tricks by imposters.)

Regardless the US is run administratively. There was always going to be a waiver.