Three SEIU locals to receive healthcare waivers
And the hits just keep on coming:
As if it weren’t bad enough that 222 multi-million dollar organizations were receiving waivers (and on a side note, 45 of those organizations were labor unions which naturally would have been Barack Obama supporters) that would exempt them from the healthcare reform law, and as if it wasn’t bad enough that a New York local of the SEIU decided to drop its children’s healthcare coverage siting Obamacare as the reason, now comes word that three SEIU locals have been granted waivers to exempt them from the healthcare reform law.
HHS gave a waiver to Local 25 SEIU in Chicago with 31,000 enrollees on Oct. 1, 2010; to Local 1199 SEIU Greater New York Benefit Fund with 4,544 enrollees on Oct. 10, 2010; and to the SEIU Local 1 Cleveland Welfare Fund with 520 enrollees on Nov. 15, 2010.
One of those locals just happens to be from Barack Obama’s hometown. I am sure that is just a coincidence, just as it is a coincidence that the Obama supporting SEIU donated $27 million to Barack Obama’s campaign, and while in another coincidence 45 Obama supporting labor unions are getting these waivers also.
Meanwhile, while multi-million dollar organizations with the lobbyists and the resources to fight a lengthy court battle receive healthcare waivers, those that cannot afford to buy healthcare coverage–and who cannot afford the lawyers to fight this in court–will be forced to pay a penalty, which they probably also cannot afford, because they didn’t have enough money to meet the government’s demand that they buy healthcare insurance. How is this fair to anyone?
The more that we hear about the healthcare reform law, the worse it is. Big businesses and unions get all of the waivers while average Americans who are just struggling to make ends meet are getting the shaft.
America's Watchtower 
Is this how we define equal under the law. How can there be exceptions to complying with a law?
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You know what? That is a damn good point!
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Nice message, Steve. I have a lot of problems with health care reform as is and want major changes to the bill over time. I do like some parts of it very much (pre-existing conditions coverage). But nothing makes me …. more pissed … than the waivers.
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I have to disagree with you on the pre-existing conditions portion of this bill; that is designed to help run the insurance companies out of business. Once people only buy insurance when they need something major done and the insurance compaies haven’t collected premiums from these people it will only be a matter of time before they can’t stay operational. And that is the plan.
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We need a judge to slap an injunction and prevent this thing from going into effect while it’s being litigated.
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That is a great idea, we see this happen all the time–as in Arizona–and I don’t understand why no judge has done it here.
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You don’t get to buy fire insurance when your house catches fire. That is my feeling about it.
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Exactly!
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We had our meeting at my company last week to give us the bad news on how much more our health insurance is going to cost us this year. Luckily, I work for a company that cares about its employees immensely which meant they worked hard to not just pass along the increase to the employees 100%, even going so far as to underwrite the deductibles in the plan they had to take on in order to manage the costs; however, my family plan is still going up significantly per month. They were looking at 17% increases to their costs, with family plans costing them up to $19,000 an employee this year. This is a small company (75 employees) who really felt the pain this year. Some states were feeling it even more this year (up to 50% increases in cost) as we are in Massachusetts and had already taken some of the brunt earlier with the MA mandatory health care law. How much more can these small businesses and the working class take?
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You are lucky that the company you work for did so much in order to try to keep your costs down, my company did the best they could also but we still had to change plans. (So much for being able to keep your insurance) It is only going to be a matter of tiem before small businesses are no longer going to be able to provide healthcare and will decide to pay the fine instead. And that was the plan from the outset.
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Repeal and replace!
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Amen!
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Unions in bed with government, this is what we end up with Steve. Special favors and the government picking the winners and the losers. This is not how America is suppose to work. And this is why ObamaCare must go away.
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So much for equal protection, it looks as if some people are more equal than others.
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I am hereby issuing myself a waiver from Obamacare and declaring our Constitution- shredding federal government to be illegal and corrupt. The rule of law is for everyone or no one at all.
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I’m in!
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