Obamacare waivers for unions?

[SassyLady]

This admin doesn't understand that their actions are just giving more fuel to the Tea Party



Obama White House Hands Out 111 Obamacare Waivers- Hides It on Website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Uu_tI0hTw

[Kathianne]

Like Malkin or not, she's got this right:

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/14/waiver-mania-the-ever-expanding-obamacare-escapee-list/

The list goes on and on and on:


Waiver-mania! The ever-expanding Obamacare escapee list
By Michelle Malkin • November 14, 2010 10:26 AM

Let us briefly review the rapidly growing rolls of companies, unions, and states bursting out of the Obamacare escape hatch.

In early September, I noted the push by Obamacare promoter and Democrat Rep. Ron Wyden for a special state waiver from the very federal mandate he advocated for everyone else.

A few weeks later, McDonald’s finagled its own Obamacare waiver after warning federal regulators that it could be forced to drop its affordable health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 restaurant workers unless it got a pass.

In early October, the Obama administration announced it had granted waivers not only to McDonald’s, but also to several other firms and labor unions.

Now comes word that Torquemada HHS Secretay Kathleen Sebelius has approved a whopping 111 waivers for businesses of all sizes, along with more unions and other providers of health insurance. The escapees include employers of many low-wage and part-time workers whose health insurance plans would otherwise be dropped, including Darden Restaurants — the parent company of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster and other chains, which employ some 34,000 people.


Among the waivers recently granted were for employers like Darden Restaurants, which operates the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants, for 34,000 of its workers. Federal officials have granted 111 waivers to employers, insurers and union plans, who are responsible for covering about 1.2 million people.


Darden said the waiver would allow it to offer employees access to affordable coverage as the health care law is started.

Also on the list: Carlson Restaurants, which owns T.G.I. Friday’s, and hair salon chain Regis Corp:...


and the bottom line:


As I’ve boiled it down before:

Old Democrat promise: Everyone gets to keep their health insurance.

New Democrat promise: You can keep your health insurance…if you BEG hard enough for an Obamacare waiver.

Yep: The only way for hundreds of thousands of workers to keep their health insurance is to exempt them from the government-imposed “fix.”

The Soros monkeys are attacking conservative Obamacare critics as “Republican repeal mongers” — even as the Obama administration concedes failure and continues to approve temporary repeals of the federal mandates to company after company after union after union.

Waiver-mania also comes on the heels of Democrats’ own push to repeal the onerous 1099 provisions:


A leading Senate Democrat vowed Friday to introduce legislation killing a part of the new healthcare reform law that imposes new tax-filing requirements on small businesses.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee and a leading architect of the reform law, said a provision requiring businesses to report more purchases to the IRS will impose undue paperwork burdens on companies amid an economic downturn when they can least afford it.

Baucus, who had pushed legislation scaling back the requirement earlier in the year, now wants it repealed in full.

“I have heard small businesses loud and clear and I am responding to their concerns,” Baucus said in a statement. “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy in my home state of Montana and across the country, and they need to focus their efforts on creating good-paying jobs — not filing paperwork.”

Guess we are all “repeal mongers” now, eh?

[SassyLady]

....shaking my head...thinking.........what a stinking mess ..... these people get paid over $100K per year and all they can do is create a bigger mess....and it's feeding upon itself...reminds me of the flesh eating bacteria.

[red states rule]

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[Binky]

....shaking my head...thinking.........what a stinking mess ..... these people get paid over $100K per year and all they can do is create a bigger mess....and it's feeding upon itself...reminds me of the flesh eating bacteria.

Yep, and to think how much bigger a mess it'll become over the next few years is nauseating.

[red states rule]

Yep, and to think how much bigger a mess it'll become over the next few years is nauseating.

If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it is "free" under Obamacare

Of course the waitng room at the Doctor or the hospital, will seem like your local DMV

[red states rule]

http://www.newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_375/cartoons/clockbackobamacare.jpg