We need to boycott the government for even doing this. Companies will take what the government gives them. Start at the top and don’t mess around at the bottom. It’s time for massive changes at the top. Do that and you won’t have to worry about companies or unions. Union members have to get involved also. They need to turn against their leadership for helping to destroy this country.
Get off your anti-corporate high horse.
What this affair reveals is:
1. It's an admission that even the feds recognize that the actual application of Obamacare isn't practical -- or even feasible.
2. If you're big enough to have legal/lobby representation in Washington -- or otherwise know how the system works -- you can get a waiver. Note that some of employee counts were quite small.
It's not some kind of plot against small business. Anybody can get relief, evidently, but you have to know how to navigate the system. That's not a reflection on big business -- it's a statement about the perversity of big government.