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 From the day it was
nefariously presented for "passage" Obamacare has
been all about exemptions and waivers, particularly
those that accrue to friends of the staunchest
supporters of socialized medicine's universality and
all-inclusiveness; folks like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid
and union officials.
The former speaker
never wanted the vote on Obamacare to be a landslide
victory because the smallest possible margin of
victory actually created more exemptions for dozens
of so-called moderate Democrats. Blue Dogs were
facing enough of a re-election struggle without
being labeled as liberal supporters of the
most controversial piece of their Dear Leader's
hyper-spending agenda.
Earlier pre-vote exemptions
such as ambiguous changes to a line or two of the 2500+
page bill enabled Bart Stupak's hypocritical 15
minutes of pro-life fame. But also rendered temporary was the Democrats’ year-long claim that Rep. Joe
Wilson's
"You lie!"
statement regarding illegal alien coverage -- issued during a joint session of Congress as an
instant response to Obama's exaggerated oratory -- was itself fiction.
With the emerging news that
Rep. Pelosi’s San Francisco district has, thus far,
been granted more Obamacare waivers than any other
CD, it has become obvious even to supporters of
health care “overhaul” that the truest statement
spoken by Pelosi in the lead-up to its passage was
her arrogant pronouncement:
“But we have
to PASS the bill so that you can find out what is IN
it.”
The
nearly 1400 waivers approved by the Department of
Health and Human Services will impact over
3-million
Americans. Among HHS’s most recent
round of waivers, 38 are for hip eateries, nightclubs and hotels in Pelosi’s district.
Ironic as that may be, the Las Vegas
Sun reported on Monday that Nevada -- Harry Reid’s state --
also received a partial
statewide Obamacare waiver.
Why Nevada? The
Sun reports that HHS found some of the
law’s implementation requirements “may lead to the
destabilization of the individual market.” Senator
Dean Heller (R-NV) responded: “That’s all the more
reason why Obamacare should be repealed.”
"Not surprisingly, it helps to
be a Democratic ally when seeking a waiver. The
Republican Policy Committee reports that over half
of the workers that have been exempted so far belong
to unions," Mark Hemingway writes in
Weekly Standard blog.
Hemingway continues: "Unions already received a
generous concession in the health care bill. Their
generous "Cadillac" insurance plans were exempted
from being taxed until 2018, adding about $120
billion to the bill’s cost over ten years."
What will non-friends of the
administration get?
 Democrats
could argue that we were actually the first
recipients of an Obamacare waiver. When Nancy Pelosi
issued her infamous proclamation we became exempt
from finding out what was
IN the
bill
until she and her cronies crammed it down our
throats.
Apparently, it's sticking in
their craws too.
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