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Originally Posted by njbchbum
phew! thanx for that note, bk - thought i had missed something. coralway's referred website seems to be just as you say...hasn't shown me that there aren't any waivers to participation.
gonna go check some chris matthews comments - i think that's where i heard waivers mentioned.
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Thus far there have been between 1200 and 1300 PLUS waivers given.
This from Jan 2012
"Roughly 1,200 companies received waivers from part of the healthcare reform law, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) said Friday."
And the Final Number of ‘Obamacare’ Waivers is… | TheBlaze.com
There was a report of over 1300 reported even earlier so who knows...they do not give that info out publicly any longer ????
But the political claim came from stuff like this...
Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer.
Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama‘s signature legislation since June 17, 2011.
By contrast, private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for small businesses, were granted waivers.
The Department of Health and Human Services revised the rules governing applications for health reform waivers June 17, 2011, amid a steady stream of controversial news reports, including The Daily Caller’s story that nearly 20 percent of last May’s waivers went to businesses in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s district in California.
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Labor unions primary recipients of Obamacare waivers | The Daily Caller
So again the transparency is gone and we do not know
The other reason for the political issue being raised is that before the door closed on information, I think about 300 in on month went to Pelosi's district in SF.
And who knows what the number is...this from Politico over a year ago..
"The number of temporary healthcare reform waivers granted by the Obama administration to organizations climbed to more than 1,000, according to new numbers disclosed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS posted 126 new waivers on Friday, bringing the total to 1,040 organizations that have been granted a one-year exemption from a new coverage requirement included in the healthcare reform law enacted almost a year ago. Waivers have become a hot-button issue for Republicans, eager to expose any vulnerabilities in the reform law."
Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000 - The Hill's Healthwatch