Tawdry details of Obamacare: White House quietly exempts pampered politicos

[MCWAY]

Imagine that!! ObamaCare is so great that Obama himself and his cronies WANT NO PART OF IT!!!

I guess that saying liberals believe laws are for everyone ELSE rings true again.

If you would like to know what the White House really thinks of Obamacare, there’s an easy way. Look past its press releases. Ignore its promises. Forget its talking points. Instead, simply witness for yourself the outrageous way the White House protects its best friends from Obamacare.

Last year, we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had granted 111 waivers to protect a lucky few from the onerous regulations of the new national health care overhaul. That number quickly and quietly climbed to 222, and last week we learned that the number of Obamacare privileged escapes has skyrocketed to 733.

Among the fortunate is a who’s who list of unions, businesses and even several cities and four states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee) but none of the friends of Barack feature as prominently as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

How can you get your own free pass from Obamacare? Maybe you can just donate $27 million to President Obama‘s campaign efforts. That’s what Andy Stern did as president of SEIU in 2008. He has been the most frequent guest at Mr. Obama‘s White House.

Backroom deals have become par for the course for proponents of Obamacare. Senators were greased with special favors, like Nebraska Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson and his Cornhusker Kickback and Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary L. Landrieu and her Louisiana Purchase. Even the American Medical Association was brought in line under threat of losing its exclusive and lucrative medical coding contracts with the government.

Not only are the payoffs an affront to our democracy and an outright assault on our taxpayers, the timing itself of the latest release makes a mockery of this administration’s transparency promises. More than 500 of the 733 waivers, we now know, were granted in December but kept conveniently under wraps until the day after the president’s State of the Union address. HHS is no stranger to covering up bad news; in fact, this is becoming a disturbing pattern. Last year, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hid from Congress until after the Obamacare vote a damning report from the Medicare and Medicaid Office of the Actuary showing Obamacare would cost $311 billion more than promised and would displace 14 million Americans from their current insurance.....

In short, the administration has decided that you will face increased health insurance premiums, but special friends in the unions will not. Look closely, and you’ll see not only the White House‘s duplicity but also what the Obama administration really thinks of its crown jewel, Obamacare. White House words say that the annual insurance benefit cap is a feature of the program, but its actions say that it’s a bug.

The question remains: If Obamacare is such a great law, why does the White House keep protecting its best friends from it?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/28/tawdry-details-of-obamacare-420960137/

[whork25]

The Unions is in bed with the dem thats why

[Soul Crusher]

But Mal and Straw keep telling me 33 million are "GETTING" healthcare! 

Ha ha ha - what morons who buy into the daily lie machine that is this treasonous cabal of an admn. 

[MCWAY]

But Mal and Straw keep telling me 33 million are "GETTING" healthcare! 

Ha ha ha - what morons who buy into the daily lie machine that is this treasonous cabal of an admn. 

Didn't a bunch of saps try to go to a hospital, thinking they were getting free healthcare, only to get their feelings hurt last year?

The alleged 33 million people don't get any alleged benefits for another three years. And, as I said last year, if you think Shameka from the 'hood or Becky from the trailer park will get the same health insurance as Nancy Pelosi, you've been smoking that stuff.

[Soul Crusher]

They already qualifiy for medicaid for fucks sake. 

[MCWAY]

They already qualifiy for medicaid for fucks sake. 

Let's see:

- Doesn't lower premiums
- Doesn't guarantee you can keep your current plan
- Death Panels
- Dems needed guns to their heads and their familes held over boiling oil, to run on their vote for ObamaCare during midterms
- Liberal politicians, unions, and other goofies who touted ObamaCare are the main ones asking for exemptions and waivers


Am I missing what's so great about this mess?

[whork25]

Let's see:

- Doesn't lower premiums
- Doesn't guarantee you can keep your current plan
- Death Panels
- Dems needed guns to their heads and their familes held over boiling oil, to run on their vote for ObamaCare during midterms
- Liberal politicians, unions, and other goofies who touted ObamaCare are the main ones asking for exemptions and waivers


Am I missing what's so great about this mess?

Ehh Death Panels

[Soul Crusher]

Its more crap from the shit stain sputnick.

[MCWAY]

Ehh Death Panels 

Yep!! You may know it as rationing or "end-of-life-counseling". Basically, it's when you pay doctors more to talk old people and their families into pulling the plug on Granny. Or, when the suits in Washington deem that old Methusaleh ain't cost-effective to keep pumping medicine into him.

That's why after Palin exposed them, they yanked it (the first time). Then, when they tried to sneak it back in (with instructions not to publicize it) but got exposed AGAIN, it got yanked once more.

[240 is Back]

I guess that saying liberals believe laws are for everyone ELSE rings true again.

I think it's more about rich and powerful vs. the rest of us.

[whork25]

Yep!! You may know it as rationing or "end-of-life-counseling". Basically, it's when you pay doctors more to talk old people and their families into pulling the plug on Granny. Or, when the suits in Washington deem that old Methusaleh ain't cost-effective to keep pumping medicine into him.

That's why after Palin exposed them, they yanked it (the first time). Then, when they tried to sneak it back in (with instructions not to publicize it) but got exposed AGAIN, it got yanked once more.

Well its still the relatives choice right?

Dont you think the Insurance companies denying coverage to lets say children is much more of a death panel?

[MCWAY]

Well its still the relatives choice right?

Dont you think the Insurance companies denying coverage to lets say children is much more of a death panel?

The difference is that, if one insurance company say "No, thank you", you can always find another. And, if the state-line thing can be elminated, that process becomes that much easier.

Now, thanks to ObamaCare, companies and unions (yes, the same ones that supported this mess) are dropping coverage for kids altogether, rather than be forced to cover kids with pre-existing conditions.

[Soul Crusher]

Amazing, they have to threaten people w jail and fines to sign up for this piece of shit. 

Just the fact alone that they are already having to grant massive amounts of waivers is a clear sign thid thing is destructive, damaging, deranged, disjointed, discredited, and disgusting.

Good job you morons and fools who cheered this on. 

[Soul Crusher]

The other ironic thing about this piece of shit, is that obama himself campaigned against all of the very things that ended up in this vomit bowl called a healthcare bill. 

Obama, the lying thief he is, ran campaign ads against billy tauzin himself and in the end made a dirty corrupt deal in the WH with the same fucking guy to screw us over on the drug prices.  Unbeleivable. 

But off course the drones and ignorant hacks still supporting this abomination of an administration refuse to acknodlge this.  Absolutely pathetic that these hypnotized fools are still so ignorant to reality. 

Hope and Change fools! 

[MCWAY]

The GOP needs to ram this down the Dems' throat on a regular basis. MAKE THEM DEFEND all the waivers they're giving out to their buddies, to avoid this glorious program. And whoever is the front-runner to challenge Obama needs to beat him to death about ObamaCare (from the method in which it got passed to all this bribery and exemptions, to death panels, and everything in between).

And do not let the Senate rest!!!

[Soul Crusher]

They should also run the bill tauzin ads obama ran on the drug prices. 

What a joke.

[MCWAY]

Judge Rules Health Care Law Is Unconstitutional

A U.S. district judge ruled Monday that the health care law unconstitutional because it violates the Commerce Clause

Judge Roger Vinson said as a result of the unconstitutionality of the "individual mandate" that requires people to buy insurance, the entire law must be thrown out.

"I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate. That is not to say, of course, that Congress is without power to address the problems and inequities in our health care system. The health care market is more than one sixth of the national economy, and without doubt Congress has the power to reform and
regulate this market. That has not been disputed in this case. The principal dispute
has been about how Congress chose to exercise that power here," Vinson wrote.

"Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void," he wrote.




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/31/judges-ruling-health-care-lawsuit-shift-momentum-coverage-debate/#

To top it all off, Team Obama won't even put their money where their mouths are, by signing up for this garbage. Over 700 exemptions for supporters of the Obama Administration.

Harry Reid doesn't have the sack to vote on it, as he knows lots of Dems who are up in 2012, may vote for repeal to save their own hides.

I say KEEP THE PRESSURE UP, until ObamaCare is GONE!!!

[Soul Crusher]

Check this out.   i want just one asshole on this board to defend this.