Posted on 01/24/2011 10:37:18 AM PST by Starman417
Is there any better example of do as we say, not as we do, than ObamaCare? (h/t Gateway Pundit)
Three local chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)–whose political action committee spent $27 million supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election–have received temporary waivers from a provision in the Obamacare law.The three SEIU chapters include the Local 25 in Obama’s hometown of Chicago.
The waivers allow health insurance plans to limit how much they will spend on a policy holder’s medical coverage for a given year. Under the new health care law, however, such annual limits are phased out by the year 2014. (Under HHS regulations, annual limits can be no less than $750,000 for 2011, no less than $1.25 million in 2012 and no less than $2 million in 2013.)
The SEIU, with more than 2 million members nationally, includes health care workers, janitors, security guards, and state and local government workers.
The three SEIU locals, covering a total of 36,064 enrollees, are covered by the federal waivers, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
But there is a new Sheriff in town after November and this kind of behavior will no longer be allowed to be sweeped under the rug. The new Republicans on the Congressional Oversight subcommittee on health want answers on who and why certain organizations are getting waivers to the ObamaCare requirements: (h/t Michelle Malkin)
“If there are exemptions,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told The Hill, “what was the process by which those exemptions were sought and given?”“I think those are fair questions to ask,” he said, “and I expect we will.”
Gowdy, a freshman and former prosecutor, got the chairmanship on Tuesday. The health subcommittee has jurisdiction over federal health policy and food and drug safety, in addition to the District of Columbia and federal records.
Gowdy said he met with Oversight Committee staff Wednesday and immediately began planning future hearings.
The below video is from November when the number of organizations who were getting waivers was at 111. It's now over 200:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I think there are plenty more places that got waivers too. They all need to be checked into.
Why? Because Kathleen Sebelius said so, that is why. If you don’t like it...too bad.
republicans don’t care, they are as much in on it as the dems, they just have to make news to keep the game going
Glad Congress is looking into it.
Will be even more glad when Congress can reasonably explain to the American people why they are exempt from this socialist medical scheme.
Do not what they do, do what they SAY.
I read the other day it’s 222 buisness that have gotten waivers. If it’s so freaking good, why is SEIU running for the door?
There is no such thing as a waiver from a law. If a law was passed through the constitutional process, it is binding on all.
What this is is the president telling the “justice” department to not prosecute certain companies for not following the law. The president does not have the right to do this.
That’s a lot.
I think that this is a GREAT start for the new congress. They are hitting the ground running.
Last year we burned up phone lines saying “NO” this year we need to burn them up saying “thanks”
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