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Right now, I sitting through a House Energy and Commerce committee oversight hearing on the waivers that have been granted to exempt certain businesses from new regulations under the national health care law.
Conservatives have made two main arguments against the waivers — that the need to grant so many waivers shows that the health care law is more destructive than the administration let on, and also that unions have been given special treatment in the waiver process.
“2.5 million people need to literally be protected from the health care bill that was passed,” Rep. Cliff Stearns said, echoing one of those arguments.
But Democrats responded that the willingness of the administration to grant waivers demonstrates that they’re being flexible in implementing the law in the years before it is fully in effect in 2014, and they dismissed the idea of any special treatment.
Rep. Henry Waxman said, “there has been no favoritism to unions” in granting waivers
The committee will hear sworn testimony from two witnesses — Steve Larsen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Jay Agnoff, a senior advisor to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
UPDATE: Waxman later said that the talk of special treatment for unions is “a way to get people angry about unions and to stir up hostility.” He said the attacks on the waiver process are “political propaganda” and part of a larger effort to spread lies intended to discredit the health care law.
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martin j smith| 2.16.11 @ 10:37AM
WAXMAN IS A LIAR. WHAT ELSE IS NEW ?
Julie| 2.18.11 @ 4:15PM
He's an ugly bastard too.
Lazy Jack | 2.16.11 @ 11:14AM
King Henry the Waxman is at it again. Whenever someone tries to wash the lipstick off this sow with a few inconvenient facts, King Henry rolls out the Sturm und Drang. He did it last year when companies began to accrue, per generally accepted accounting rules, for the added expenses of Obama Care. Now he is at it again. To paraphrase Goebbels: Anything becomes the truth if you shout loudly enough and repeat often.
Thanks Henry.
An oldie but a goodie:
http://thanksforthelaughs.word.....he-waxman/
lazy Jack
Dixie Pixie| 2.16.11 @ 11:37AM
Waxman aka....The Beverly Hills Goebbels
Jack you may be on to something.
Conservative Bob| 2.16.11 @ 11:16AM
Waxman is a vile despicable liar, who gives a easily recognizable clue every time his is not telling the truth; his lips move.
Now that a court has ruled Obamacare as unconstitutional we all have wavers.
If the dems/progressive/leftists this POS all they need to do is pass a constitutional amendment and get it ratified, then mandate and all it will be the law of the land.
Lazy Jack | 2.16.11 @ 11:23AM
For those interested in the laundry list, here it is:
http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regul.....aiver.html
Lots of unions, state and local governments, and irony of ironies, health plans that supported the legislation.
Interesting list, Henry.
Lazy Jack
Yosemeti Sam| 2.16.11 @ 11:31AM
Parse his surname and you get - Wax man.
Already composed - for a wax museum of Leftoids.
jamezbelly| 2.16.11 @ 11:33AM
When getting health insurance I usually go through wise health insurance website. The reason for this approach is because I get more personalized service and assistance. Once I went though ehealthinsurance and it offered no customer support.
Wayne | 2.16.11 @ 12:21PM
ObamaCare is Void, all of us have a waiver.
Richard Baker| 2.16.11 @ 12:34PM
Ah, Henry. Reality intrudes. Of course, Unions received no preferential treatment. Waxman says so. Strange little man.
PattyMor| 2.16.11 @ 2:25PM
All the waivers are favortism. Want to bet that they "paid" for their waivers by donating to the Bamsters relection campaign. After all "pay to play" was developed in Chicago, Bamsters home turf.