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.
Any reason for Pelosi to resign is a good reason.
As long as San Franciscans like her, they will keep voting her in. Doesn't matter what everyone else thinks.
Hey man, where you been?
Health Care Law | San Francisco | Nancy Pelosi | The Daily Caller
If this is such a great thing, why is she collecting waivers for her district?
The question I propose is should she resign?
What is the Daily Caller? Sounds and looks partisan to me. So basically Im not voting because the information is 90% BS or twisted in some form. :roll:
Where in this article does it say she had any hand in giving out these waivers?If this is such a great thing, why is she collecting waivers for her district?
Where in this article does it say she had any hand in giving out these waivers?
In actuality, Aitken explained, the high percentage of waivers is the byproduct of local law rubbing against the new national legislation. In April 2008, San Francisco passed an ordinance requiring employers to spend a minimum amount per hour on health care for their employees who work in the city. In response, a number of eateries chose to set up Health Reimbursement Arrangements, which are essentially pools of funds set aside by employers to reimburse medical expenses paid by employees.
HRAs are serviced by a third-party administrator or plan service provider. They are also subject to the annual limit provision in the national health care law, which is set at $750,000 in 2011 before it is eliminated fully in 2014.
Like many self-insurance policies and union organizations, employers using HRAs have been applying for a waiver from this provision, arguing that application of the requirements would "completely eliminate the benefit" of setting up the HRA in the first place, Flex-Plan Services said. When they do so, they turn not to lawmakers like Pelosi or to the employers themselves, but to third-party administers like Aitken's company. (And, as she hinted, political donations by Flex-Plan have leaned Republican, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.)
"These are some of the administrative hiccups that, I think, when you have a giant health care overhaul like this, you’re bound to have," said Aitken. "And I think that’s exactly why [the Department of Health and Human Services] put in the option for waivers, because they knew that there are some players who have different types of arrangements all over the nation."
On January 7, 2011, Flex Plan first requested waivers for its clients. In a letter to the HHS, the company's attorney Tina Ann Davis, wrote that, “[m]any of our HRAs were implemented by employers to satisfy local law requirements, provide coverage that otherwise would not be offered, or to help employees with their out-of-pocket medical care costs," the letter reads. "HRAs allow these employers to comply with the local law while providing an affordable health care benefit to their employees."
Aitken confirmed the authenticity of this letter.
This information, however, was not public knowledge prior to the Daily Caller's piece. And the disclosure on Tuesday morning that a number of businesses in Pelosi's own district had been granted waivers immediately became partisan fodder, with the Drudge Report linking to the story and the topic being pushed during White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's briefing.
do you honestly believe it is merely a coincidence?
Health Care Law | San Francisco | Nancy Pelosi | The Daily Caller
If this is such a great thing, why is she collecting waivers for her district?
The question I propose is should she resign?
These waivers are approved for an overwhleming majority of everyone who applied for them. To say that they are only going to those that are connected is silly. As for complainin that some get to bypass the law, these waivers were written in to the law so that businesses and health insurance companies that need more time to comply could get some extra time. That's a good thing. This is just conservatives complaining for the purpose of complaining.
Lets just say that you were in Sebellius's shoes. The law was passed. You can't stop it from being implemented so you have to factor out any distaste for the bill that you might have. If there are businesses coming o you and applying for waivers that are part of the bill anyways, and they are saying that if they don't get this one year waiver they would have a hard time switching everything over or finding a new plan would you rather destabilize some businesses or would you just give them a waiver which was written in to this bill just for this reason?
Re: Obamacare Waivers
I looked at the waver list. These are examples of what I found:
Applicant and Number of Enrollees
24 Hour Fitness 1,758
Bowman Sheet Metal Heating & Air-conditioning 4
Discovery Benefits* 3,739
Heritage Christian Services 4,662
MVP 21,548
Teamsters Union Local # 35 1,109
Excellus Health Plan 18,860
PepsiCo, Inc. 301
American Heritage Life Insurance Company 69,945
Noodles & Company 159
It’s nothing like DashingAmerican or cpwill are claiming. For the whole list, not a faux list, go to Helping Americans Keep the Coverage They Have and Promoting Transparency | HHS.gov
What is interesting is that PepsiCo, Inc. and Noodles & Company have 460 employees total that they are exempting. Do you have a guess as to why so few employees of such large corporations were applied for and are to be exempted? I do.
Health Care Law | San Francisco | Nancy Pelosi | The Daily Caller
If this is such a great thing, why is she collecting waivers for her district?
The question I propose is should she resign?
I claimed nothing.
You made the claim "... why is she collecting waivers for her district?"
Now support yoour claim or admit it was bogus.
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