If Obamacare is so Great, Why the Waivers For Unions & Mega Insurance Companies?
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July 10th, 2012
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Here is a link where you can see the list of organizations that have received a waiver from Obamacare.
http://cciio.cms.gov/resources/files/approved_applications_for_waiver.html
I thought Obamacare was supposed to be great and helpful to Americans and businesses. Why would Obamaâs biggest supporters in Unions and in the insurance industry need waivers from such a great plan? The organizations receiving waivers sure makes me scratch my head:
- United Federation of Teachers Fund â 351,000 enrollees
- NY District Council 37 Health & Security Plan â 303,164 enrollees
- CIGNA -265,000 enrollees
- Aetna â 209,423 enrollees
- Teamsters Local 237 Welfare Fund â 51,649 enrollees
- Chicago Local 25 SEIU â 31,000 enrollees
Peruse the complete lists at your leisure. Why is a law that is supposed to be awesome for you and me, not being enforced on unions and the health insurance companies that helped write the 2,700 page monstrosity? Iâm sure thereâs a good explanation. Obama wouldnât lie to us about Obamacare. It certainly doesnât include any taxes and it will certainly be budget neutral.
Labor unions primary recipients of Obamacare waivers
Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the presidentâs health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer.
Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obamaâs signature legislation since June 17, 2011.
By contrast, private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for small businesses, were granted waivers.
The Department of Health and Human Services revised the rules governing applications for health reform waivers June 17, 2011, amid a steady stream of controversial news reports, including The Daily Callerâs story that nearly 20 percent of last Mayâs waivers went to businesses in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosiâs district in California.
The labor unions receiving waivers include those that are monitored under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, and those that are not. The waivers granted since June 17 are valid until 2013, but recipients must make sure their employees understand the âlimits of their coverage,â according to HHS documents.
HHS granted waivers on a year-by-year basis under its initial application process, but waivers granted after June 17 are valid for a maximum of two-and-a-half years. (RELATED: Full coverage of the health care law)
By and large, unions backed the health care overhaul, a law from which nearly a half million of their workers are now exempt.
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What the hell is going on here?
Doesnât it look like that we are being taken down a peg or two? Economically speaking.
Look at the newest one, PFGBEST. $220 million in investors accounts/cash POOF, gone.
MF Global what was it $2 billion, POOF, gone. No clues, no explanation, just sorry but POOF, itâs gone. How come nobody is being prosecuted and imprisoned? The government is raping us and what do we do? Nothing but flap our lips. We are a bunch of weak gullible suckers and they have us pegged. They know just how to do it to us, and are. Our lustrous so called leaders are playing butt darts with each other colluding on how to squeeze our savings from of us, and will be just tickled leaving us with nothing but a promise and a LIE! Sorry, it must suck to be you; you should have seen this coming.
Look and you will see this coming because itâs here, right now!
GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF THEIR REACH !!
Um why are the unions a whipping boy. At least they exempted themselves because the union plans are excellent health care.
No way can mcdonalds and walmart make the same claim. There health care is $3000 you pay for $4000 worth dof care with a thousand dollar deductible. Should not even be legal but this is a giveaway to insurance companies to provide free cadilac care to executives.
And yet, these socialist programs are presented as if they are are the saviors of one and all. Fact is, if laws of this type are to be created and enforced upon SOME of us, then they they should be enforced upon ALL of us. I believe that there is something in the US Constitution (yes, that inconvenient anachronism) about “equal protection under the law”. Laws like this make it seem as if some of us are more or less equal in the eyes of the law.
As a student of history, I am well aware of the fact that socialism sucks… always has, always will. I do not want socialized retirement, apartment, health care, job, or anything else. The dust bin of history is littered with the remains of this idiotic philosophy. It has failed and failed miserably everywhere it has been tried. It can’t even pass the most basic of survival tests because it cannot even feed itself without massive food aid from outside the socialist system). The tests have been done and the results are clear. We do not need to keep trying this because IT DOES NOT WORK. It is similar to hitting our thumbs with a hammer 47 times, in the vain hope that at some point it will start working. Only the galactically stupid need more than *1* whack with that hammer to grasp the truth of the situation. IT HURTS!
But the insurance system is a ponzi scheme.
We do not have socialism in the usa unless you consider corporate welfare as such. I do not have s problem with people paying their own health care and such. But do not keep taking money out of my paycheck for ss and.such, then as it gets closer to my time to collect, tell me the system is broke so they can give it to non citizens etc.
Obama care is about helping insurance companies and hospitals make profit.
TO bad none of you are old enough to remember the county hospitals,they were free to the working people,but no, your leaders sold them to private companys and now it costs a fortune to go to the doctor….did you save money selling them away,hahaha NO,THIS AIN’T ABOUT health care anyway,ITS about getting the funding for OBAMMYS private little ARMY,to KILL your dumb ass,boy scouts,girl scouts all with 40cal. MP-5 “machine guns” weapons at your front door…think I’am kidding, check it out, we did and found out its true,they’ll be the first wave of gun grabbers trying to take your guns,SAD but these little assholes will kill alot of people,AND don’t boohoo me till you check it out like we did,cimerron,new mexico boy scout camp,go see,we didn’t believe it either…………