Pelosi’s District Gets 20% of Latest ObamaCare Waivers
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…
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.
Full article on the dolling out of waivers in this favored Northern California district. Bret Baier of FOX News also reported on it here.
What do you think of this latest news? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
What are the odds that of all the business establishments in the country that recently needed a waiver in order to continue providing health insurance for their workers, that one-in-five would be in northern California?
Anybody out there doing some research on any connections between Pelosi donors and who gets the waivers?
I can’t help but wonder about the businesses needing the waivers. Did they support Pelosi and her vote for Obamacare? Shouldn’t they be forced to sleep in the bed they made?
No one would have expected these waivers to appear in Ron Paul’s district. Or Paul Ryan’s. The fact that Pelosi would abandon her “tough stance on health reform” in order to protect her buddies back home is not a shock.
This really is outrageous.
Totally disgusting.
I am planning to research and write more on this, but I think Linda Duxbury of the San Francisco Business Times has largely figured it out (http://tinyurl.com/3n4orun). San Francisco’s restaurants and retailers already suffer under the Healthy San Francisco mandate to pay a surtax to the SF Public Health Department if they don’t offer health insurance to their (low-wage) workers.
I’ve written a lot about Healthy San Francisco (http://statehousecall.org/?p=10219) and how awful it is. However, if Ms. Duxbury is right, the waivers are going to restaurants that are using Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) to satisfy the mandate, instead of paying the Public Health Department. So, we shouldn’t criticise too harshly, IMHO.
I am planning to research and write more on this, but I think Linda Duxbury of the San Francisco Business Times has largely figured it out (“Pelosi’s SF eateries feast on federal health waivers,” May 17). San Francisco’s restaurants and retailers already suffer under the Healthy San Francisco mandate to pay a surtax to the SF Public Health Department if they don’t offer health insurance to their (low-wage) workers.
I’ve written a lot about Healthy San Francisco (http://tinyurl.com/23gcfwm) and how awful it is. However, if Ms. Duxbury is right, the waivers are going to restaurants that are using Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) to satisfy the mandate, instead of paying the Public Health Department. So, we shouldn’t criticise too harshly, IMHO.