In response to the revelation that about 20 percent of the latest slew of Obamacare waivers went to luxurious restaurants, nightclubs and hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s district, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told The Daily Caller the waiver process is “corrupt.”
“Unflippingbelievable! No, wait, it is believable,” Palin said in an email to TheDC. “Seriously, this is corrupt. And anyone who still supports the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda of centralized government takeovers of the free market and the corresponding crony capitalism is, in my book, complicit.”
President Barack Obama’s administration approved 204 new Obamacare waivers in April. Thirty-eight of them went to upscale businesses including four-star hotels, gourmet restaurants, day spas and hip nightclubs in Pelosi’s district. That’s in addition to 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved.
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 upscale, gourmet restaurants and hotels getting a year-long pass from Obamacare.
The reason the Obama administration says it has given out waivers is to exempt certain companies or policyholders from “annual limit requirements.” The applications for the waivers are “reviewed on a case-by-case basis by department officials who look at a series of factors including whether or not a premium increase is large or if a significant number of enrollees would lose access to their current plan because the coverage would not be offered in the absence of a waiver.” The waivers don’t allow a company to permanently refrain from implementing Obamacare’s stipulations, but companies can reapply for waivers annually through 2014.
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Ha! There isn’t anything you can do about it. You can try to go to the courts but we all know that the Supreme Court will never overturn the healthcare reform bill.
It’s about time that the racist pro-Israel anti-Palestinian Glenn Becks and Sarah Palin cowboys dissappear.
When you conservatives had Bush, you didn’t care that the Patriot Act would take away the rights of Muslims in this country. You attacked two sovereign countries and killed millions of Muslims. All to do the dirty work of Israel.
And we were all helpless watching this.
Well, you’re time has gone, and the time has come to take back our country. We’re going to get back at every one of you, and there is nothing you can do about it. As your cowboy said, “You’re either with us or you’re against us.” One by one, companies will be forced to stop supporting the conservative pro-Israel lobby, or they won’t get the waiver and they’ll simply go out of business. Face it, you’re either with us or you’re with Israel. Your choice.
If the Obama administration had not granted the waivers, the right wingers would be complaining that it was too rigid. It can’t win with these folks.
and when you lie dieing in the hospital, becuase Obama Care doesn’t worry about your condition, because you’re older than 65, I’ll laugh and tell you, why didn’t you extend term limits for the best president of all times Mr. Obama.
Ok, fess up, which one of you clowns gave him the jewish curse that came true? “Zolzt vaksin vie a tzvibil mit der kup in der ehrt”!
Is ProudLiberal one of charliehall’s pen-names?
Proudliberal – You are absolutely disgusting. Your comments border on anti-Semitism, when you suggest that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were intended to do the “dirty work” of the Jewish State.
It’s a shame that you choose to side with your own enemies. Disgusting.
You write: “[C]ompanies will be forced to stop supporting the conservative pro-Israel lobby, or they won’t get the waiver and they’ll simply go out of business. Face it, you’re either with us or you’re with Israel. Your choice.”
Are you suggesting that the Obama administration will refuse to grant waivers to those who espouse conservative or pro-Israel views? That’s certainly interesting, given that most of those who are receiving the waivers now are Democrats who supported the law way back when. (Hey, if they liked it so much, why are they now imploring the administration to grant hundreds upon hundreds of waivers?)
You may choose to side with the so-called “Palestinians” now, but one day you will realize that you have been duped. One day, you will realize that anti-Zionism is just another codeword for anti-Semitism. And when that day comes, you will need Eretz Yisroel as your insurance policy, as a safe haven where you are always welcome.
At a time when Ishmael is crumbling, when all the Arab regimes are collapsing, the Jewish State is the sole source of political stability in the Middle East. It is the sole democratic state in a region of bloodthirsty murderers. The Jewish people must be united, as we are living in the footsteps of the Moschiah and our enemies are collapsing one by one. We cannot afford to hear self-loathing rhetoric from fools like you.
You are one of those 80% of Yidden who would have stayed in Egypt and been killed. You are one of those rabbis who would tell people to register with the Nazis. What you fail to understand is that appeasement does not lead to peace.
You may side with the Palestinians today, but they will murder you tomorrow – as we saw with the Italian activists recently slain in the Gaza Strip, and with Lara Logan who was raped as she stood in Tahrir Square cheering on the Egyptian Muslims.
You are signing your own death warrant, my friend, and you don’t even get it. You know in your heart that Israel is right and its enemies are wrong. You know; just admit it.
ProudLiberal is probably not even be Jewish. Charlie Hall is a believer in the efficiency of liberal policies. He is a supporter of Obama. He believes that is the best way to go for the growth of our country. He may be misguided, but he has a Yiddishe hartz. He would never spew the Anti-Israel pro-Muslim filth that comes from ProudLiberal.
I read a blog post elsewhere where our own charliehall called on his minions to use many aliases to post so that they appear to be more. That being said I am almost sure charlie is also the proud liberal. Either way, since liberalism is a lie, they are both LIARS!
Since they both support obama no matter what, especially this horrendous anti constitutional law, one could only hope they themselves become a victim of what they love so much.
The bottom line is, this will either be struck down in the supreme court or it will be repealed altogether in Congress once Obama is out of the way in 2013!!
I dont think that Charliehall is proud liberal, aldough I almost never agree with charlie still I believe him to be a good person. As to proud liberal I dont even know why the mods let his posts through, to read that kind of hate you dont need YWN, you can see that on CNN.
This Guy who calls himself Proud liberal is self hating (jew). How sick to write such vile stuff. Stuff you would see on the dailykos and mediamatters. But again what do you expect from any liberal. Charlie Hall is only a drop better.
What is the editor doing? So many comments are not accepted and this ranting gets through?
Charlie will never have an anti Israel rant.
I do not know who is writing the ProudLiberal posts. I always post under my own name. I do not agree with ProudLiberal’s anti-Israel statements nor with his tone.
proud liberal sounds like an anti semite