Posted on 04/03/2011 3:54:12 PM PDT by neverdem
Sure, ObamaCare is great for you. So great that the president is now offering 3 million members of his base ObamaClemency:
The Obama Administration has rolled out another 129 waivers to one provision of the new health reform law, with almost half of those new exemptions going to various union groups. The extra waivers bring the total to 1,168....The waivers now cover almost three million Americans, but the feds argue that is "less than 2 percent of all Americans who have private health insurance."
The waiver gets you out of "a portion of the law that in 2011 requires an annual benefit limit of no less than $750,000." Sure beats a PBA card.
The left loves to perseverate on the threat to democracy posed by the top one percent of the country's earners. Wonder if they'll have any complaints about the two percent of Americans the president has officially exempted from obeying the law of the land.
We are deep in banana- republic territory here. The head of state forces an eccentric law onto his subjects and then lets his closest supporters get out of it so that they alone may continue to prosper. To call this more of the "same old" cynical Washington back-scratch machine is to underestimate the extent of the damage taking place before our eyes.
This is criminal. IMPEACH this bastard NOW!
Soon to be followed by ObamaIndulgences.
Or is that what GE's got?
Didn’t the entire state of Maine get some exemption?
I’m no attorney, but isn’t this reaching some tipping point where you are not arbitrarily allowed to pick people out to be covered by a law?
The Constitution exempts everyone from Unconstitutional Obamacare. Regulating health care is not an enumerated power granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. It is a power reserved to the states or to the people per the 10th Amendment and therefore is Unconstitutional on the federal level. The people are not bound to comply with an Unconstitutional act of Congress!
When the king decides who must obey the law, and who does not, then there is no need for a legislature, or voters, or a judiciary, or a Constitution. Obama’s “waivers” amount to wholesale disregard for, and breakdown of, the rule of law. The president is suppose to uphold the law, not dictate it. The House should impeach Obama.
I exempted my self a microsecond after it passed ...
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If so many are being exempted; it shows we don’t need the damn thing.
There are no words for how comtemptable and evil this bastard is. And we don’t know a fraction of what’s going on.
Does anybody know - is this 3 million policies...or 3 million people?
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1,168 exemptions covering 3 million unionized employees, if I understand it correctly.
Watch for a full report on TV by State-run media on the evening news; NOT
Since I don’t believe the government should have any involvement with health care, I’m inclined to think the more exemptions, the better.
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