“If,” Michael Barone asks, “Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?”
He’s writing about a phenomenon Michelle Malkin has dubbed “waiver-mania” whereby, as Barone puts it, “1,372 businesses, state and local governments, labor unions and insurers, covering 3,095,593 individuals or families, that have been granted a waiver from Obamacare by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.”
Why, he wonders, “are more than half of those 3,095,593 in plans run by labor unions, which were among Obamacare’s biggest political supporters? Union members are only 12 percent of all employees but have gotten 50.3 percent of Obamacare waivers.”
FROM THE COMMENTS: Call John perplexed:
Here’s what I don’t get. Obamacare is the best idea since… um…. when Krishna first decided to run for president. Instead of waiving his friends, why doesn’t he tell his enemies that that can’t participate?
Good question.
The simple answer?
All their Cadallac plans and plans with LT Maximums would be void under Obamacare, so they’d have to drop thousands of their policy holders.
(Standard Disclaimer: I work for an insurance company. I sure as hell don’t speak for them, nor do they want me to)
You have the equation backwards, they are getting the waivers BECAUSE they are Obama supporters. Just another example of “…do as I say, not as I do”, and that the “rules” are for the little people.
It’s the Chicago Way.
ObamaCare is fatally flawed legislation; however, through the waivers, we are seeing political cronyism at play & one more reason why it should be repealed ASAP. Equal protection under the law is being violated by these waivers.
How can a transparent, fully vetted and openly debated piece of major legislation end up being fatally flawed?
Answer: Obama inherited the mess from Bush.
Let’s see, Obama Party members said that the only reasons anyone would oppose Obamacare and not want to follow it were these:
1) They care more about profits than people
2) They exploit their workers and cause them to get sick
3) They want people to die quickly
4) They hate poor people
5) They’re racist
So we can quite nicely state that Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Kathleen Sebelius, and the rest of the Barack Obama Party support and endorse companies that exploit their workers, hate the poor, and are racist.
And anyone who supports Obamacare waivers is saying that they do not care if companies exploit their workers, make them sick, hate the poor, or are racists.
Pelosi needs to be nailed to the floor on this. Reid needs to be nailed to the floor on this. Obama needs to be nailed to the floor on this. All supporters of Obamacare like Levi need to be nailed to the floor on this. Why are they protecting and giving special favors to companies that they themselves deemed racist and exploitative previously?
Is it a fact that 20& of those waivers are going to business in Nancy Pelosi´s district? Why is she securing so many waivers when her re-election is assured? Her district is so safe that it would be suicide and a waste of money for a Republican to challenge her.
Pelosi’s district: No circumcision until after 18 years old; abortion without parental consent. You can kill a fetus as will, but don’t even think about nipping the foreskin.
How do you run against that?
Pelosi’s district: No circumcision until after 18 years old; abortion without parental consent. You can kill a fetus at will, but don’t even think about nipping the foreskin.
How do you run against that?
Heliotrope, despite the new circumcision law, doctors will still do it. This law defies common sense.
Here’s what I don’t get. Obamacare is the best idea since… um…. when Krishna first decided to run for president. Instead of waiving his friends, why doesn’t he tell his enemies that that can’t participate?
If health care is a “right of every American”, then it is also the obligation of every other American to pay for it. ObamaCare cannot work without the individual mandate.
So how can people opt out of paying for a right (that health care is claimed to be), but not opt out of paying for an entitlement like Welfare?
Are entitlements more important than rights?
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The circumcision law poses an interesting conundrum. Will Jews getr a free pass or must they go out of San Francisco to a rabbi in another city?
Muslims also practice circumcision. If they were to be prohibited from continuing the practice, does that close the door on implementing Sharia Law?