Obamacare's Selective Waivers and Exemptions
There are hundreds, thousands, of problems with the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, hundreds of millions of problems, in fact, depending on America’s population at the moment.
Passed on Christmas Eve, 2009 by the Democrat Senate and by Democrats in the House on March 21, 2010 with zero Republican support in either body and signed by President Barack Hussein Obama two days later, Obamacare, as it has unaffectionately become known, was acclaimed by Vice President Joe Biden as “a big f*cking deal.”
With or without the asterisk Biden didn’t use, it was “a big f*cking deal,” and more.
Assuming the Supreme Court decrees PPACA constitutional, when it is fully implemented by 2014, Obamacare will be an even bigger deal as its tentacles reach into the lives of millions of Americans, into their homes, businessess, doctors, and hospitals with government bureaucrats sometimes literally making life or death decisions for most of us.
That’s the bad news. The good news for many is that Obamacare will have little if any impact on their lives or deaths.
Those lucking out? Democrat loyalists, principally labor unions but also certain health care providers and other entities who supported the passage of PPACA. They have been generously rewarded for their unwavering support with waivers, meaning they could maintain their own health plans and not be subject to the vagaries of Obamacare.
Understandably, the Obama administration has sought to minimize publicity surrounding those payoffs, totalling almost 1400 at last count.
The DailyCaller.com reported in June that the waiver-spigot was scheduled to be turned off by the Department of Health and Human Services as of September 22nd and speculated that low-key Friday afternoon announcement was intended to squelch the waiver controversy and protests against their inequities.
Based on how this administration operates, the waiver spigot is probably still dripping.
Unfortunately, political payoffs, aka bribery, have been a facet of politics since ancient Greek and Roman pols granted favors or slipped a few coppers into the grubby hands of commoners. With Obamacare waivers, Obamians greatly expanded and refined the corruption.
However, in the case of one particular group, bribes weren’t necessary. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5790.)
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Obamacare Outed
Obamacare Outed
If a tree falls in the forest with no one around, does it make a sound? Of course it does! However, if a news event breaks and no one reports it, is it still news? If it happens and the MSM doesn’t report it but radical news organizations such as Fox News do, does the event constitute news? Of course not!
That’s a thought to remember as Obamacare rolls on to its inevitable full implementation in 2014, even though it has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. That was news-y enough to get cursory coverage by the MSM since it was beyond ignoring but then the powers that govern what the masses see, hear, and read shelved that factoid so it doesn’t count.
When it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck and acts like a duck, it’s pretty safe to say it isn’t a swan. Likewise, when a federal program looks like a lemon, smells like a lemon, and tastes like a lemon, it’s almost certain to be a lemon and nothing proposed in Washington since Prohibition is more lemony in every way than Obamacare.
One entertaining use of that lemon this week was President Obama’s affixing it to the neck of Mitt Romney as what Tony Soprano termed “an albacore” and most people would call an albatross, a smelly sea bird foreshadowing doom when it’s dead and draped around one’s neck. In this case, it spells doom for Romney’s yet-unannounced candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012.
Romney, relecting a clear disdain for both the intelligence and memory of the American electorate, last week guilefully proclaimed that the first thing he would do on assuming the office of the presidency–a heady assumption, indeed!–would be to dismantle Obamacare. The president promptly and deftly thanked the former Massachusetts’ governor for his able “assist” in passing Obamacare by virtue of his model, the equally-repugnant “Romneycare” in the Bay State.
You really have to watch out for those invited albatrosses, or albacores, Mitt! Maybe, like your dad, George, did in 1964 when he turned up his nose at conservative Barry Goldwater and said he would go fishing instead of voting for the Republican nominee you, too, might consider doing likewise on November 6, 2012. You could catch an albacore.
Were entertainment the chief attraction of Obamacare, Americans could almost enjoy it as farce but most of what the Patient Federal Care and Protection Act of 2010 (PPACA) entails is far from farcical. Skillfully timed to fully impact Americans only after they have already voted next year with an additional two years built in to capitalize on their short term memory deficiencies, the 2,309 page PPACA will revolutionize America’s health care system beyond imagining, and beyond reasoning.
What will most immediately surprise most Americans is not seeing their medical care go the way of another Obamacare model, Britain’s bankrupt National Health Service, though that is as certain as death and taxes. What will shock and dismay will be the costs imposed, another item ignored or minimized by the MSM which makes it non-news except to those who will pay through the nose.
A primary reason for those costs . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4526)
If a tree falls in the forest with no one around, does it make a sound? Of course it does! However, if a news event breaks and no one reports it, is it still news? If it happens and the MSM doesn’t report it but radical news organizations such as Fox News do, does the event constitute news? Of course not!
That’s a thought to remember as Obamacare rolls on to its inevitable full implementation in 2014, even though it has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. That was news-y enough to get cursory coverage by the MSM since it was beyond ignoring but then the powers that govern what the masses see, hear, and read shelved that factoid so it doesn’t count.
When it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck and acts like a duck, it’s pretty safe to say it isn’t a swan. Likewise, when a federal program looks like a lemon, smells like a lemon, and tastes like a lemon, it’s almost certain to be a lemon and nothing proposed in Washington since Prohibition is more lemony in every way than Obamacare.
One entertaining use of that lemon this week was President Obama’s affixing it to the neck of Mitt Romney as what Tony Soprano termed “an albacore” and most people would call an albatross, a smelly sea bird foreshadowing doom when it’s dead and draped around one’s neck. In this case, it spells doom for Romney’s yet-unannounced candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012.
Romney, relecting a clear disdain for both the intelligence and memory of the American electorate, last week guilefully proclaimed that the first thing he would do on assuming the office of the presidency–a heady assumption, indeed!–would be to dismantle Obamacare. The president promptly and deftly thanked the former Massachusetts’ governor for his able “assist” in passing Obamacare by virtue of his model, the equally-repugnant “Romneycare” in the Bay State.
You really have to watch out for those invited albatrosses, or albacores, Mitt! Maybe, like your dad, George, did in 1964 when he turned up his nose at conservative Barry Goldwater and said he would go fishing instead of voting for the Republican nominee you, too, might consider doing likewise on November 6, 2012. You could catch an albacore.
Were entertainment the chief attraction of Obamacare, Americans could almost enjoy it as farce but most of what the Patient Federal Care and Protection Act of 2010 (PPACA) entails is far from farcical. Skillfully timed to fully impact Americans only after they have already voted next year with an additional two years built in to capitalize on their short term memory deficiencies, the 2,309 page PPACA will revolutionize America’s health care system beyond imagining, and beyond reasoning.
What will most immediately surprise most Americans is not seeing their medical care go the way of another Obamacare model, Britain’s bankrupt National Health Service, though that is as certain as death and taxes. What will shock and dismay will be the costs imposed, another item ignored or minimized by the MSM which makes it non-news except to those who will pay through the nose.
A primary reason for those costs . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4526)
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