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Old May 16, 2011 | 03:29 PM
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On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly posted newly accepted waivers to 221 businesses and two entire states exempting them from damaging provisions of ObamaCare, bringing the grand waiver total to seven entire states and 1,372 businesses.

Despite union workers only making up 11.9% of the workforce, 45.55% of waiver beneficiaries are unionized. If the law’s supporters are requesting and receiving waivers, shouldn't the law’s opponents should be guaranteed waiver?
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Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.

That’s in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services approved.

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.
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Scam is spelled: O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E
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Scam is spelled: O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E
Isn't it U-S-_-G-O-V-E-R-N-M-E-N-T?
Old May 18, 2011 | 03:30 PM
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that's the alternative spelling, yes.
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If we need to give people waivers in order to enact a law, why was it made law in the first place?
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or better put: what's the point of a law that select people/businesses are just getting waviors for?


That's like saying, everyone has to follow the 13th admendement, unless they get a waivor, then they can still own slaves.
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Waivor is spelled W-A-I-V-E-R
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Wavior is spelled W-A-I-V-E-R
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Wavier than what?
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I think a waivor is like a surfor.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
everyone has to follow the 13th admendement, unless they get a waivor, then they can still own slaves.
Wait- I can get a waiyvourre for that? Dude, why did nobody tell me this?

Move over, China. I am about to dominate the cotton industry.
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More:

The Health and Human Services Department announced late Friday that Nevada had secured a statewide waiver from certain implementation requirements of the Obama administration's health care law, because forcing them through, the department found, "may lead to the destabilization of the individual market."

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Nevada's Insurance Division had appealed to the feds to reduce the federal requirement that health plans serving people who buy insurance on their own must spend at least 80 percent of the money they collect on medical expenses. Under the national rule, companies that don't spend that percentage of revenue on medical costs have to cut policyholders rebate checks starting this year.



I thought Harry Ried and Polesi championed this law, why is it that their states are rejecting it and getting favors?
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Originally Posted by Braineack
I thought Harry Ried and Polesi championed this law, why is it that their states are rejecting it and getting favors?
Why is the sky blue?
Why is water wet?
Why did judas rat to romans while jesus slept?

I think that is just how it works.
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American stands for freedom, so if you think your free, try walking into a deli and urinating on the cheese.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
American stands for freedom, so if you think your free, try walking into a deli and urinating on the cheese.
Queso?



All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.



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Originally Posted by Braineack
That's like saying, everyone has to follow the 13th admendement, unless they get a waivor, then they can still own slaves.
Slaves? Man, I don't want any slaves. I already feed, clothe, and provide housing to people. Don't make me have to supervise them all day, too. You ask too much.
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Would someone delete my doppelposten, bitte?

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