Posted on 10/08/2010 5:13:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
Regulation: Thirty companies and organizations get waivers from the new health care overhaul because otherwise they'd have to raise rates or drop coverage. The president said neither would happen. Hey, where's our waiver?
When McDonald's told federal regulators in a recent memo that it would be "economically prohibitive" for its insurance carrier to continue to cover its 30,000 hourly workers unless it received a waiver from the ObamaCare requirement that 80% of premiums for such minimed plans be spent on medical care, alarm bells went off in the White House.
Suddenly the "affordable health care for Americans" that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke of when she passed a bill no one had read was revealed to be an unaffordable fraud that threatened to throw untold numbers of young workers into the ranks of the uninsured in an already precarious election year.
So now McDonald's has its waiver, for 115,000 workers, not just 30,000. Jack in the Box also has a waiver, as do 28 other companies and organizations. The largest waiver, for 351,000 people, is for, appropriately enough, a union — specifically the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, a New York brotherhood that covers teachers.
The United Agricultural Benefit Trust, a California-based cooperative that provides such low-cost minimal coverage to farmworkers, was allowed to exempt 17,347 workers. Even what has been dubbed RomneyCare gets a waiver, with Massachusetts' universal health coverage bureaucracy getting an exemption for about 5,000 people.
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“If we can get insurance companies and the government (Medicare, Medicaid) out of health care, health care costs will become manageable again.”
Hear! Hear!
You’ve hit it square on the head... This whole ugly business of double digit inflation in health care costs didn’t start until the Feds got involved, back in the 50’s and 60’s, along with the stupid a$$ unions demanding ‘perks’ in negotiations (and the idiot companies that caved in to their demands).
Isn’t there a new prison out West that can accommodate a few of these crooks?
You left out the old geezers and the disabled on the death panel lists.
— Isn’t there a new prison out West that can accommodate a few of these crooks? —
We could build another Hoover Dam size wall 2 miles down steam. That might be suitable.
Ping
Amazing how all those who called George Bush a fascist voted in a REAL fascist to succeed him. American voters on average have about as much sense as a domesticated turkey.
Would I be incorrect in asking why the “equal protection” clause would not apply to those not given a waiver?
I was wondering the same thing. To try to govern this way is outrageous and certainly not constitutional. Why aren’t there more lawsuits?
Stay Healthy, my friends!
Where is our exemption from this law. Are not our 14th amendment guarantees of equal abuse under the law being violated?
BINGO!! Commerce clause exemptions are all inclusive.
The Democrats passed a bill that they didn’t even read, just like the stimulus bill. 2,000 pages of doubletalk. And they give the head of the Dept of Health & Human Services the power to apply or waive the law as she sees fit.
Irresponsible, arrogant scoundrels. That’s what we have in the House and Senate. The pigs of Animal Farm.
Wait till people start getting taxed for their health insurance benefits. Talk about a voter uprising!
I've got a note from my mother that says I don't have to participate in Obamacare...
Worked for me in the 70’s. It was remarkable how her penmanship changed so drastically.
LOL
Well, all this horse shit strongly implies there must be one here somewhere. Keep looking.
There ya go, and why are they waivered?? To get him past this election. Not that it will help.
“Where is our exemption from this law?”
Why would you want to be exempt from such a brilliant, compassionate, wonderful law that gives everyone free healthcare?
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