Obamacare: 733 companies have now been granted healthcare waivers
I thought it was bad enough when 222 companies and organizations applied for and were granted healthcare reform law waivers but the latest count is in and a staggering 733 companies and organizations have been granted healthcare reform waivers.
Here is a slightly tweaked version of a previous post about the 222 companies receiving healthcare reform waivers:
There are 733 companies which were granted the healthcare waivers, who knows how many waivers were asked for and denied. Small companies and individuals who cannot afford either to purchase healthcare coverage or acquire the services of a lawyer to threaten to fight the government if they are not granted a waiver are the ones who are going to be left holding the bag here while large corporations and unions are exempted from the law, and this is reform?
Couple this news with the fact that the SEIU will be dropping healthcare coverage for children, while also having been granted healthcare waivers, the AARP and Boeing cutting benefits, and doctors dropping Medicaid–all of which I have written about in the past–we are beginning to see exactly how bad this law is. Perhaps if lawmakers had taken the time to read the bill they might have had an inkling about the negative effects of the bill we are just now beginning to see, but Nancy Pelosi said the bill must be passed so that they could see what was in it, so the bill was passed and we are just now beginning to see how bad this law is. This is just the beginning, it isn’t going to get any better once more regulations begin to be implemented.
Whatever happened to equal protection under the law?
America's Watchtower 
Equal protection simply doesn’t apply anymore Steve. It’s all about special favors for groups or organizations who are looking for protection against an overreaching government. They throw their money behind an elected official or a party to garner these special favors. Instead of standing up for what is right, they settle for the scraps the government throws at them.
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I am afraid you are right and I just don’t know how we are going to combat this.
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Their view of equal protection is that some are more equal than others.
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Unfortunately I am afraid you are right.
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Imposing an unconstitutional law subjectively sounds like something that could be argued in court as illegal. I think tying this thing up in court is the only way to stop it.
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And that is what we have got to do, we have yo make its implementation as difficult as possible.
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I am waiting for the outrage….waiting…
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Now the Congress may investigate, so maybe we are making progress.
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Holy. Crap.
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My first reaction also!
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If the states’ individual mandate suits fall flat, I guess we could go after this…
Unjustified waivers while the rest of us are forced/fined?
What a joke
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The Congress may investigate this, hopefully they will.
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So supposedly these waivers don’t matter b/c they are just for “mini-med” plans which are not for catastrophic care which means the evil businessmen and Republicans want you to die, or something. And in 2014 the magic fairies I mean the federal gov’t will have a much better insurance plan for you.
Anything more expensive than these plans will make many part-time or temp jobs too expensive for the evil businessmen to offer. So what’s worse: a small job with a small plan, or NO job and NO plan? And do we really believe that magic fairy is coming in 2014 (when the waivers won’t be possible anymore, I think).
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All this is doing is kicking the can down the road–to use a favorite expression of Obama’s–while he hopes the government can take it over before anyone realizes what s going on.
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i agree with rjjrdq. None the less I would like to see the Camber of Commerce petition for waivers for all of their members.
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Now that would be priceless!
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my company (who is preparing to outsource all of our jobs) has dropped our decent healthcare option due to Obamacare, our former copay of $20 bux now turns into a 200 dollar office visit, so we are not making Dr visits because we cannot afford it. So now the people that could not afford it CAN go, and the ones who used to be able to (the majority) cannot. How is this fair?
they have managed to ruin healthcare, and companies saw this coming and raised our contributions…so we’re not technically taxed by the govt..but the healthcare companies are not about to absorb this cost, it’s been passed on to us anyway, so we’re paying for it on the front end and the back end.
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Once again those of us who are trying to do the right thing are the ones who are getting screwed. It is so damned frustrating!
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