The New York Times reports that the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been busy granting selective waivers to Obamacare’s mandates, restrictions, and requirements. The Times reports that, “To date, the administration has given about 30 insurers, employers and union plans, responsible for covering about one million people, one-year waivers on the new rules that phase out annual limits on coverage for limited-benefit plans, also known as ‘mini-meds,’” and that “[a]mong those that administration officials hoped to mollify with waivers were some big insurers, some smaller employers and McDonald’s, which went so far as to warn that the regulations could force it to strip workers of existing coverage.”

The Times observes, “How much the administration can, or should, compromise in ways that could dilute the effect of the new law in the next few years is a subject of much debate, depending on the politics from state to state or the economic dynamics in a particular market.”