Smiling Assassin27
10-07-2010, 08:10 AM
Now lest you think this waiver process would be consistent, systematic, and rational, let me reassure you, it isn't. It's arbitrary, cumbersome, and essentially accentuates what we already know: this bill was an overreaching, premature, and insufficient effort at health care reform.
As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards.
If you're the mindless 'i hate corporations' type (you know who you are), then you should be livid because the Administration basically succumbed to the whining of SOME corporations as to the burdensome nature of the bill. If you're the 'let business run America' type, you also should be livid from the Administration's arbitrary and unfair waiver process and subsequent uncertainty in an already uncertain marketplace. If you're an anti-government type, you should be livid because this administration and Congress has once again (just like they did with the housing sector) rammed thru a horrible bill and then heaped moronic procedures on top of it while only NOW starting to find out what the bill actually SAYS.
McDonald's said jump and Obama's people said how high. Let's see just how much McD's ends up donating to the DNC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/business/07insure.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards.
If you're the mindless 'i hate corporations' type (you know who you are), then you should be livid because the Administration basically succumbed to the whining of SOME corporations as to the burdensome nature of the bill. If you're the 'let business run America' type, you also should be livid from the Administration's arbitrary and unfair waiver process and subsequent uncertainty in an already uncertain marketplace. If you're an anti-government type, you should be livid because this administration and Congress has once again (just like they did with the housing sector) rammed thru a horrible bill and then heaped moronic procedures on top of it while only NOW starting to find out what the bill actually SAYS.
McDonald's said jump and Obama's people said how high. Let's see just how much McD's ends up donating to the DNC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/business/07insure.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss