The Department of Health and Human Services posted 126 new health care reform waivers on Friday, bringing the number of organizations being granted a temporary exemption from requirements in the health care reform law to 1,040, the Hill reports.

The waivers, which are typically granted to "mini-med" organizations that provide limited coverage and cannot meet the annual coverage limits mandated by the health care reform law, were meant as a stopgap measure to prevent a disruption in the insurance market upon implementation of the new legislation.

But many Republican lawmakers are pouncing on waivers as evidence of the argument that the law, which Obama signed into law in March 2010, is fundamentally flawed.