REVEALED: Waiving Obamacare: HHS never had authority to issue exemptions (Not in the original law)

Hotair ^ | 06/07/2011 | Tina Korbe

[ken5050]

I thought the GOP had poured over every line of the bill..why wasn’t this picked up earlier? seems like very sloppy staff work..

[rokkitapps]

Let’s have hearings on waivers. Sooner than later.

[knarf]

Levinsen has been around a while and apparently left in by design.

Mr. Levinson graduated from the University of Southern California and holds law degrees from Georgetown and George Washington Universities. He is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Could zero stand up against a REAL IG that had fraud examiner as part of his resume' ?

[NonValueAdded]

The letter asks Sebelius to identify the number and type of denied applications

Good. I have been calling for that for a long, long time. It will be more revealing than the list of those receiving the waivers.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“The law is what we say it is.”

[Mr. K]

REMOVE ALL WAIVERS NOW~!!!!

BEFORE THE ELECTION YOU GOP MORONS

SHOW PEOPLE WHAT WILL HAPPEN

This is a complete violation of the equal protection afforded under the constitution. You cannot make laws that only apply to some people. Waivers are unequal treatment.

The competitors of any company given waivers should be screaming about this~!!!

[PapaNew]

I know this is off the subject, but how much did the government spend in the idiotic “stimulus”? Wasn’t it trillions? Didn’t this stupid “stimulus” send us over the edge from a deficit of billions to a deficit of trillions? Why isn’t anyone talking about how this ignoramus, completely stupid “stimulus” was like the iceberg that sunk the Titanic?

[oh8eleven]

HHS gave itself the power last summer using a broad interpretation of certain parts of the law.
And the GOP will respond by doing:

• A) Nothing
• B) Nothing
• C) Nothing
• D) All of the above

[Dacula]

and the Republican party will do nothing again...

[GOPJ]

I believe the bill was passed before ANYONE could look at it - remember the hurry about those who had preexisting conditions? All the drama and gnashing of teeth? Turns out there aren't that many of those people in the country - and the rest of it will take forever ... yada, yada... Ya gotta love the liberal liars - they pulled that scam off...

[ken5050]

You are correct, but one assumes that they read every line of the bill carefully once it was passed, and published. It should not have taken this long to come to that concluson that exemptions aren’t in the law..

[B4Ranch]

And the GOP will respond by doing:

* A) Nothing
* B) Nothing
* C) Nothing
* D) All of the above

[muawiyah]

As I recall if we read the law very carefully, once we return to power around here, we can read it to contain a special tax on just Democrats.

They'll be overdue for about 3 years so the tax plus interest and penalties should be enough to finally ruin almost all of their kind.

[KC Burke]

This needs to be shouted at every administration press conference.

[GOPJ]

Good point. You’re right on this, Ken5050.

[circlecity]

"but how much did the government spend in the idiotic “stimulus”? Wasn’t it trillions?"

The stimulus bill itself was about $830 billion. But it was followed almost immediately by an Omnibus spending bill of $500 billion which the Dems rationalized as more stimulus to the economy. Thus, we spent about 1.3 Trillon specifically directed to stimulus, but there was plenty of other stimulus spending hidden in other bills that weren't marketed specifically as stimulus bills. It seems most of that money went to the states to cover the govt worker saleries and Govt union obligations the States did not have the funds to pay. Therefore all it accomplished was to delay the State financial meltdowns for a couple of years. Well, two years later the States are once again right where they were and we have nothing to show for the trillion and a half dollars we flushed down the toilet.

[Nachum]

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[Hoodat]

We have entered into a season of lawlessness in this nation. If our government doesn’t obey our laws, neither will the people.

[PapaNew]

Thus, we spent about 1.3 Trillon specifically directed to stimulus, but there was plenty of other stimulus spending hidden in other bills that weren't marketed specifically as stimulus bills.

This only happened in the last year and half or so. People talk like this is some mysterious thing that just sort happened whenever and somehow now we're in this mess and we need government to "help" us out of it when of course as always government created the mess and just recently made it a lot worse under His Impostership. Why aren't people (who know better) shouting protests from the rooftops?

This and ObamaCare are THE economic issues that should be constantly hammered on to the American people.