Posted on 03/24/2017 8:23:32 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
To date, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has approved 1,372 Obamacare waivers, covering 3.1 million Americans. Yesterday, The Daily Caller reported that among HHS's most recent round of 204 Obamacare waivers, "38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's Northern California district." That's right: Nearly 20 percent of exemptions from Pelosi's crowning health care achievement were doled out in her backyard.
If that's not enough irony for you, try this waiver on for size: On Monday, the Las Vegas Sun reported that Nevada—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's home state—received a partial statewide Obamacare waiver, too. If you're keeping score, Reid was Pelosi's counterpart in the Senate fighting to get Obamacare passed into law. Now his state will be one of three to get a waiver from the law's requirements, while the rest of America suffers.
Why did Nevada get a waiver? The Sun reports that HHS found that some of the law's implementation requirements "may lead to the destabilization of the individual market." Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) said that that's all the more reason why Obamacare should be repealed:
"It is becoming increasingly clear how flawed this law really is . . . Not only did it cut a half trillion dollars from Medicare, impacting thousands of Nevada's seniors, now the law would have driven health insurers out of our state if a reprieve had not been granted . . . This is why 'Obamacare' will not work for Nevada."But Pelosi's district and Reid's home state aren't the only ones getting waivers. There are others getting a break from the law, too—big corporations and labor unions.
(Excerpt) Read more at askheritage.org ...
cancel all the sweetheart waivers to dems and their ilk and watch all the screaming.
If congress had to live with the same sort of crap sandwiches they make the people eat things would be different
They were going to lose that protection in the Ryan bill.
How pathetic is that ... a Christian health ministry can operate under Obamacare but is threatened under RyanCare?
Sounds like a great idea. Only one fly in the ointment. Every deep state progressive judge in the U.S. will come out of the woodwork to challenge it. We need a new S.C. justice first.
Trump could cancel subsidies to any insurance company that violates the Hyde Amendment or covers illegal abortions.
If he cannot cancel subsidies by Executive Order, he can prosecute the companies and their leadership.
This will accelerate the Obamacare death spiral, which is all about insurance companies dropping out. There is a good chance they all drop out by end of year.
Trump should fight like a Democrat. They fight to kill.
Be careful! When I suggested on another thread Trump use his EO pen, I was told I support tyranny.
Today was the first battle. This fight is just starting.
Resident Eeyores can go hold our coats ... or **** off.
another thing the President can do:
23 March - Daily Caller: Drew Johnson: Trump Should Stop Obama Scheme That Steals Money For Obamacare
The next Net Worth Sweep is scheduled to take place on March 31. But it doesn’t have to.
If President Donald Trump is truly committed to draining the swamp, he should look no further than putting an end to the Net Worth Sweep...
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/23/president-trump-should-stop-obama-scheme-that-steals-money-from-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-for-obamacare/
That actually wouldn’t be a bad idea, given that the frontal GOP attack on it failed to produce a viable bill in Congress (yet).
Politics is the art of the possible. Trump’s dealmaking methodology is the art of finding the best thing possible.
Cat has a hairball should be applicable and universal.
When I don’t want to do something I usually explain “My cat has diarrhea and I can’t, in good conscience, ignore it”.
“Sorry but, I’ll have to pass “
Simple permit free market to run parallel to the socialists.It will quickly squeeze them out!!
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Great Britain has that option. The wealthy go private and the middle class and the poor are on NHS
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
- Patrick Henry
"If this be tyranny, make the most of it!"
- Pollster
Let the consumer kill crap care, when you have a shi### product no one will buy
Let us embrace the naked truth, Obamacare without obstacle for all. No exemptions, no alternative, no subsidies, no forced participation, no illegal immigrants.
We have medicaid for the poor now and medicare for the geezers but at least the geezers paid premiums. For everyone else we have FREE MARKET insurance contracts and the ER!!. No You cannot have preexisting conditions sign up after diagnosis. That walks in with a million dollar liability!! Who would be so stupid??
The Freedom Caucus did a great job in enforcing what we wanted— LIMITED GOVERNMENT!~!! Get out of our lives and give us FREEDOM!! RINOS ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES!! They mask as neoconservatives but in reality they are statists!! Limit the GOVERNMENT not EXPAND IT!!. Give us FREEDOM!! Trump was lied to!! Ryan has to go NOW!! We want Mark Meadows.
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I think the best thing our side can do is assist people to fit within the exceptions, to survive and thrive in spite of what the political class throws our way.
Note to Congress: either give us the insurance deal you’ve got, or, you live with the crap we’re stuck with!
Correct! That is not insurance. That is welfare.
It is like getting to pick your lottery numbers after the drawing.
It is like buying fire insurance after the fire and car insurance after the wreck and a horse bet after the race. Absurd!!
bmp
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