GOP Objects To ObamaCare Waivers

Democrats are perplexed by this, but it's not that difficult. The GOP is objecting to HHS issuing ObamaCare "waivers" to a growing list of businesses. The waivers mean that they don't have to comply with many provisions of the new ObamaCare law.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48003.html

Without calling out business directly, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming attacked a series of “special Washington waivers” that helped preserve so-called “mini-med” plans — health insurance with very narrow benefits that mainly enroll low-wage and temporary workers.

“While the administration is forcing most Americans to accept the new law, over one and a half million Americans now get a free pass,” said Barrasso, who is one of the doctors in Congress. “These people have been given special Washington waivers. Many of these waivers have gone to labor unions who supported the law in the first place, but now don’t want to live under it.”

And they're right. Look, Democrats passed a comprehensive overhaul of our entire health care system, telling us it would reduce the cost of health insurance AND medical care. They said it was good for the entire country. But they NOW believe that if these waivers weren't issued, then it would be a "disaster."

Barrasso is right: Some of the waivers have gone to health plans offered by labor unions, like the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund. But most of them went to restaurants and other businesses with low-wage workers, as well as insurers like CIGNA that offer these kinds of limited-benefit plans.

The administration granted the waivers, which free the “mini-med” plans from new rules that keep health insurers from limiting their annual benefits too much, to keep companies like McDonald?s from cutting off health coverage for their low-wage workers. If they had done that, as some businesses were threatening, the White House would have been blamed for people losing their health insurance because of the law.

That would have been a political disaster, even though many Democrats and consumer groups weren’t happy about the waivers.

Now, WHY would it have been a political disaster? Because it would have shown the entire nation how flawed their "comprehensive reform" was. So they issued the waivers.

In other words, the only way to maintain the fiction that ObamaCare doesn't harm many people is to exempt those people from complying with the new law. And why? So the Democrats don't suffer an even worse political defeat in 2012.

Now, hands up, everyone who thinks that laws should be passed and exemptions granted because of the political benefit such actions would generate to one party or another. Anybody? Yeah, me neither.

The law is a bad one. The fact that these waivers are necessary to keep approximately 15 million people from losing their insurance should tell you that. ObamaCare mandates a "one-size-fits-all" health care system, and the real world just doesn't work that way.

HHS should refrain from issuing ObamaCare compliance waivers, so that Americans can get a TRUE picture of what life will be like under the Democrats' new health care law. Using waivers to fool us into believing the law works well SHOULD BE illegal.