“Equal protection under the Law?
Not for you cracker. Not for you in the military.
Not for you non-Union worker.
It ain’t your America anymore.”
Posted on 10/07/2010 6:37:36 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
The Obama administration is already carving out exemptions to Obamacare, in order to allow some employers (like McDonald's) to provide very minimal coverage to employees, far below the law's standards.
According to NYT, the administration has already granted 30 such waivers to various organizations.
The administration is already having to deal with private insurers who say they will scale back their coverage if they can't get flexibility on laws that compel them to cover every sick child.
Obamacare -- which could be loosely characterized as a scheme to compel the private sector to cover everyone -- is going to fail. It's hardly begun, and they're already granting exemptions.
There are two ways it could be fixed. It could be repealed completely, or it could become full-on nationalized, Canada-style healthcare.
At one point it seemed inevitable that after a few years, it would become the latter, and that Obamacare was obviously just the first step towards that. But the way politics has gone sharply in the direction of the first possibility. If the GOP has two good Congressional elections (2010 and 2012) and takes the Presidency in 2012, it might get eliminated completely.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Cool. Where’s the queue, I’ll take one, please. :P
We have to pass it in order to see what is in it.
Oh, wait.
The total cost of Obamacare is not known to me (or to anyone, I suspect) but it is a certain dollar amount. As some waivers are issued, then the percentage which must be paid by the losers must necessarily go up.
Each waiver makes healthcare costs rise for the rest of us. It's more wealth redistribution, which, I suspect, is the whole point.
The only ones who will not get exemptions are:
Working American Citizen Taxpayers
Gotta love that equal protection thing....
So the Prez is picking and choosing who needs to comply with ‘the law’. Welcome to marxism.
Obamacare is the law of the land. An administration, president, or csar doesn’t get to change it as he/she sees fit!!
An impeachable offense, IMO.
Did you read the comments? The socialists have come out in the open.
Now, now - all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
I’ve gone Amish. It’s pretty painless.
Shoddy reporting as usual. Nowhere in the story does it tell us how much of a contribution to The DNC these firms had to make to receive absolution.
Or Old geezers, Medicare was gutted by $8.15 TRILLION over the next 20 yrs according to the WSJ.
These waivers will be repealed as soon as the claws are sunk in deep enough that its become an entitlement.
Working American Citizen Taxpayers
Makes good sense, after all, it's important that those actually paying the bills should be billed as much as possible.
“Equal protection under the Law?
Not for you cracker. Not for you in the military.
Not for you non-Union worker.
It ain’t your America anymore.”
gotta keep the bad stuff out of the headlines till November ya know
This shows the fundamental
BASIS
of 0bamacare -
power over healthcare consolidated in the hands of a few.
On the contrary,
this is the essence of this particular “law of the land” -
“at the discretion of the Secretary of the applicable department”
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