Word: waiver
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...days later, 1st Ozark agreed to waive requiring the Clintons' and Whitewater's financial-disclosure forms, according to a document in 1st Ozark's files, "Request for Loan Documentation Waiver," dated July 15, 1988. Over the words approved by are the initials WS, evidently referring to Wes Strange. According to the document, reasons for the waiver were that the escrow account was making the payments, and the value of the collateral was "sufficient." Still, waiving such a requirement was highly irregular, especially on a commercial loan, and Vernon Dewey felt it was imprudent to do so. For the first time...
...week's end, in an interview with the Associated Press, committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato vowed to continue pressing Clinton to release the notes, but allowed that he would be willing to write to Starr to tell him, "We do not feel that there would be any waiver of any privilege" and to urge Starr to "accept the same position...
...first two years of the new plan, notes an official history of ahcccs with characteristic bureaucratic understatement, were "difficult and challenging." For one thing, Arizona won from the Federal Government the right to go its own way (a 1115 waiver, as it is called) only three months before the program was launched. The start-up was chaotic. Says Frank Lopez, then the city editor of the Arizona Republic, now the program's communications director: "I was having a field day. The thing had started too fast. Doctors weren't getting paid. There were cost overruns. I was sending reporters over...
...Arizona's plan is the wizened grandfather of them all, then Tennessee's is the cranky infant. In January 1994, less than two months after the Federal Government approved the state for a 1115 waiver, TennCare was under way. Perhaps the most ambitious state-waiver program in the nation, this managed-care system provides coverage to about 1.2 million people, or nearly one-quarter of the entire state. The breakdown: 750,000 Medicaid patients and an additional 400,000 people who were previously uninsured--a generous move that means funds are especially tight...
Several lawyers contacted say they see potential problems with the proposal, particularly because of the anti-waiver section of the federal statute...