Posted on 02/07/2011 5:37:58 PM PST by Nachum
Before there was Obamacare, there was RomneyCare/MassCare.
Before there were Obamacare waivers, there were RomneyCare/MassCare waivers.
And just as the SEIU Purple Army is smack dab in the middle of exempting itself from Obamacare, it is smack dab in the middle of deciding who does and who doesn’t have to follow the RomneyCare/MassCare rules in the Bay State.
Via the Boston Globe (h/t reader Shannon):
Massachusetts regulators granted more exemptions last year to residents who said they could not afford the health insurance required by the state, waiving the tax penalty for more than half of those who appealed, according to state data.
State officials said they excused the majority of waiver applicants in large part because of the protracted sour economy, which made insurance unaffordable for more people. Under the 2006 state law that requires most residents to have coverage, regulators have significant latitude to authorize waivers by taking into account factors such as a home foreclosure.
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You can always count on the commies to want no part of communism. Communism is for “the little people”. The Purple Gang don’t want no part of it.
Nice of Big Daddy/Big Nanny Mittens to throw us all to the tender mercies of unionized health care. The same people that ruined Detroit. ( OH! Didn’t Daddy Mittens work/scam/get rich in Detroit? Kind of like a management canary in the economic coal mine. When you get a Romney running things, sell! ) Romney/Unions/big gov/hack rent seeking companies. Detroit. Romneycare.
Romney is in for a political bitchslap of biblical proportion.
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