Dude, Where’s My ObamaCare Waiver?
MICHELLE MALKIN | Investor’s Business Daily
11/17/2010
More than one million Americans have escaped the clutches of the Democrats’ destructive federal health care law. Lucky them. Their employers and labor representatives wisely applied for ObamaCare waivers earlier this fall and got out while the getting was good.
Now, it’s time for Congress to create a permanent escape hatch for the rest of us. Repeal is the ultimate waiver.
As you’ll recall, President Obama promised repeatedly that if Americans liked their health insurance plan, they could keep it. “Nobody is talking about taking that away from you,” the cajoler-in-chief assured.
What he failed to communicate to low-wage and part-time workers across the country is that they could keep their plans — only if their companies begged hard enough for exemptions from ObamaCare’s private insurance-killing regulations.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, at least 111 waivers have now been granted to companies, unions and other organizations of all sizes that offer affordable health insurance or prescription drug coverage with limited benefits. ObamaCare architects sought to eliminate those low-cost plans under the guise of controlling insurer spending on executive salaries and marketing.
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