…like taxes, is for the little people:
Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers.
Other common waiver recipients were labor union chapters, large corporations, financial firms and local governments. But Pelosi’s district’s waivers are the first major examples of luxurious, gourmet restaurants and hotels getting a year-long pass from Obamacare.
Some have been pointing out that all these waivers illustrate just what an awful, unworkable law this is, but it’s worse than that. It is an arbitrary and intrinsically corrupt process.
You know what I say? Waivers for none, or waivers for all. Why doesn’t everyone else have a basis for a class-action suit under the equal protection clause? It might be one more way to knock down this legislative atrocity.
No, this just highlights the flexibility of the new health care law!*
Flexibility to give kick-backs…
*actual lefty argument; not a straw man
Well after she passed it, she read it and found out what was in it. Then she helped her constituents who may have disagreed with aspects of the bill. What’s wrong with that? It’s why we have representatives in Congress.
So almost 20% of the waivers came from one congressional district? In other words, if this process were even remotely fair rather than focused on particular congressional districts, we should see at least an order of magnitude more waivers granted. As I was saying to a friend last night, if 25% of the US voters still support Obama, it’s because they’re bought and paid for. I can’t see why he’d be supported otherwise.
I hope his blatant mendacity will be stopped in 2012.
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Titus, why stop at doctors?
Good legal representation is expensive. Force lawyers to lower their rates as a condition of licensure as part of an affordable legal plan for small businesses.
Good restaurant food is expensive. Force restaurants to lower their prices as part of an affordable food plan. Heck, I know of a bunch of fancy restaurants in Nancy Pelosi’s district that would be a terrific starting point.
Good ________ is expensive, so force ______ suppliers to lower their prices as part of an affordable _____ plan.
Good point, Larry. Lawyers have bar licenses; bars and restaurants have licenses. All of these can be held hostage by the looters. In rare cases where there are no licenses, they can be created and then held hostage.
Why doesn’t everyone else have a basis for a class-action suit under the equal protection clause?
Has anyone else in a similar situation to these businesses applied for a waiver and been denied?
The administration has admitted to a few dozen denials. Likely more than a few are in “similar situations.”
For some reason my comments on this thread are disappearing out into the ether. Third try is a charm?
Nevada received a state wide waiver.
Let’s see now, there is something like 3,000 pages in the Obamacare legislation and something like over 1,300 waivers granted so far to Obamacare. How long before there are as many waivers granted as there are pages?
Brad, looks to me like middle of next year by linear extrapolation (which is NEVER wrong :-), unless there is a tidal wave of applications later this year (which isn’t unlikely, the knowledge of how to do it probably has escaped into the wild by now). The only question is whether Obama administration will trim the waivers or the flood of people seeking waivers will persevere.
Since there’s nothing about “waivers” in the actual law, the obvious (yet true) method is this: just ask.
It’s nothing more or less than the whim of the administration.
Sounds to me that Queen Nancy finally got around to reading the bill (or more likely, having one of her staffers read it) and saw new opportunities for bribes (campaign contributions by their correct name). I’d love to see an analysis of those who get waivers compared to those who made campaign contributions to the Democrats in general and Obama/Pelosi in particular. My suspicion is there’s a very strong correlation between the two groups.