Dec. 7, 2010--Red State

For a law that was supposed to save America by making health care more affordable, the list of companies and unions who are being given the green light to ‘opt out’ seems to be growing by the day.

Since the last wave of ObamaCare waivers was released a few weeks ago, the number of unions and companies that have received ObamaCare waivers has doubled to 222.  The number of known unions that inhabit this list is near 50.

So far, here is the list of union inductees to the Do As We Say, Not As We Do Club:

By: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

October 18, 2010--Associated Press

By: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

October 18, 2010--Associated Press

By: Chalres Hurt and Yoav Gonen

October 8, 2010--New York Post

By: Congressman John Fleming, MD

August 31, 2010

Health Care Reform is Paid for by Cuts to Medicare

The enormous health care bill signed into law will be largely paid for by cuts to services many seniors depend on. Here is just a sampling of the Medicare cuts, totaling more than $500 billion, to come:

In 2010:                

• Medicare will cut reimbursements to inpatient psychiatric hospitals.

In 2011:                

Congressman Kevin Brady has compiled the following chart, which vividly illustrates the bureaucratic empowerment that comes with Obamacare.

By: Peter Ferrara

August 18, 2010--The American Spectator

Forthcoming for public release shortly will be my extensive study of the Obamacare legislation, "The Obamacare Disaster: An Appraisal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (Heartland Policy StudyNo. 128, The Heartland Institute, August 2010), available shortly at the Heartland Institute website. Following Nancy Pelosi's dictum that we will have to pass it first to know what's in it, I personally slogged through the thousands of pages of this legislative atrocity for the study, as well as thousands of pages of supplemental materials such as government, think tank and media reports.

By: Kevin Hassett

Bloomberg News

Article Link: http://tiny.cc/vsq6q

Press Release from Congressman Kevin Brady: http://tiny.cc/7gd8t

One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.”

That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, few if any understand exactly what the law does.

Congressional committee and party leader staff may be exempted from health care bill

Several articles have been written this week highlighting another example of how the health care bill was rushed.  Excerpts are below.

Exempted From Obamacare: Senior Staff Who Wrote the Bill
by Ben Domenech

For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for the congressmen who voted for it and for the American people.

One such surprise is found on page 158 of the legislation, which appears to create a carveout for senior staff members in the leadership offices and on congressional committees, essentially exempting those senior Democrat staffers who wrote the bill from being forced to purchase health care plans in the same way as other Americans.

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