In my latest column for the American Spectator, I delve further into the waiver scandal and the breathtaking hypocrisy of the President on secret meetings with health care stakeholders during the ObamaCare debate: In a 2006 speech to the National Press Club about lobbying reform, then Senator Barack Obama waxed eloquent about the malevolent influence of special interests on [...]
Yep. You read that correctly. The entire state of Maine has been awarded an ObamaCare waiver by Health and Human Services. And unlike the other thousand waivers HHS has handed out, this lasts for 3 years (see page 2): The federal government Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul [...]
Lifetime Democrat Pat Caddell refers to ObamaCare as a crime against democracy. For Exhibit A in the indictment, we need look no further than the 700 plus waivers the Obama administration has issued to its political cronies. Milton Wolf lays out the tawdry details at the Washington Times: If you would like to know what the White [...]
This is absolutely incredible. There was shock when we learned that the total was 111. There was outrage when the total hit 222. Now, it’s 729. The HHS website where the approved waivers are listed can be found here. When you read the list, you will notice that these “new” waivers were approved last year. [...]
As I pointed out back in December, the Obama administration has issued 222 waivers to various companies and unions so they won’t have to bear the burdens of ObamaCare. Inquiring minds have long wondered if those waivers were issued based on political considerations (like large donations to the President or his party). Fred Upton, the new chairman [...]
Pretty soon, so many entities will have been granted waivers that repealing ObamaCare will be redundant and the various lawsuits will be rendered moot. The total has now reached 222: The Obama Administration has quietly granted even more waivers to one provision of the new federal health reform law, doubling the number in just the last three [...]
