Pretty good opinion article.
It makes some very cogent and thoughtful points in my opinion. Why can't we all get an exemption from Obabcare?
WOLF: Tawdry details of Obamacare
White House quietly exempts pampered politicos
By Dr. Milton R. Wolf - The Washington Times
If you would like to know what the
White House really thinks of Obamacare, there’s an easy way. Look past its press releases. Ignore its promises. Forget its talking points. Instead, simply witness for yourself the outrageous way the
White House protects its best friends from Obamacare.
Last year, we learned that the
Department of Health and Human Services (
HHS) had granted 111 waivers to protect a lucky few from the onerous regulations of the new national health care overhaul. That number quickly and quietly climbed to 222, and last week we learned that the number of Obamacare privileged escapes has skyrocketed to 733.
Among the fortunate is a who’s who list of unions, businesses and even several cities and four states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee) but none of the friends of Barack feature as prominently as the
Service Employees International Union (
SEIU).
How can you get your own free pass from Obamacare? Maybe you can just donate $27 million to President
Obama‘s campaign efforts. That’s what
Andy Stern did as president of
SEIU in 2008. He has been the most frequent guest at
Mr. Obama‘s
White House.
Backroom deals have become par for the course for proponents of Obamacare. Senators were greased with special favors, like Nebraska Democratic
Sen. Ben Nelson and his Cornhusker Kickback and Louisiana Democrat
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu and her Louisiana Purchase. Even the
American Medical Association was brought in line under threat of losing its exclusive and lucrative medical coding contracts with the government.
Not only are the payoffs an affront to our democracy and an outright assault on our taxpayers, the timing itself of the latest release makes a mockery of this administration’s transparency promises. More than 500 of the 733 waivers, we now know, were granted in December but kept conveniently under wraps until the day after the president’s State of the Union address.
HHS is no stranger to covering up bad news; in fact, this is becoming a disturbing pattern. Last year, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hid from Congress until after the Obamacare vote a damning report from the Medicare and Medicaid Office of the Actuary showing Obamacare would cost $311 billion more than promised and would displace 14 million Americans from their current insurance.
For this administration, transparency promises last only until the teleprompter is unplugged.
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