Health Care Waivers

To date as of January 25,2012 over 3000 freedom from health care waivers have been granted by Obama and his boys and girls. The website started HIDING THEM BY NAME and number of fortunate employees AFTER Michele Malkin HIGHLIGHTED the source it was pulled down allowing the website personnel to post useless drivel instead. They have probably just alternated the same garbage to look like they are doing something since they no longer inform the public about health care's BIGGEST TRAVESTY...inequality because YOUR company cannot afford a lawyer to do the paperwork ro GET YOUR COMPANY and its serfs FREE.


Among the waivers recently granted were for employers like Darden Restaurants, which operates the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants, for 34,000 of its workers. Federal officials have granted 111 waivers to employers, insurers and union plans, who are responsible for covering about 1.2 million people.

Darden said the waiver would allow it to offer employees access to affordable coverage as the health care law is started.
Without waivers, companies would have to provide a minimum of $750,000 in coverage next year, increasing to $1.25 million in 2012, $2 million in 2013 and unlimited in 2014.

According to HHS, waivers depend on “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.”

Carlson Restaurants and Regis declined interview requests but e-mailed statements.

“Providing competitive health benefits to our team and their family members is a very important priority for us,” said Anne Varano, senior vice president for human resources and communication at Minnetonka-based Carlson. “The [Health and Human Services] waiver allowed us to continue providing health benefits to our team members at an affordable cost while giving us additional time to develop longer-term approaches. ”

Said a spokesperson at Minneapolis-based Regis Corp.: “Until [health care] reform is further solidified, it is premature to comment.”
Aetna, based in Hartford, Connecticut, was part of a first round of waivers in September for 209,423 beneficiaries in plans that don’t comply with the new requirement. Oak Brook, Illinois- based McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest restaurant chain, Jack in the Box Inc., based in San Diego, and the United Federation of Teachers also were among the waiver recipients.

About 200,000 people were included in the new round of exemptions, bringing the total to almost 1.2 million people, HHS said on its website. Also on the list for exemptions are Manor Care Inc., a nursing-home company owned by Washington-based private equity firm Carlyle Group, and Universal Forest Products Inc., a lumber company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Spokesmen for Manor and Universal Forest didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

…Dish Network, the Englewood, Colorado-based No. 2 U.S. satellite-television provider, will be given a waiver for 3,597 employees, and Orlando, Florida-based Darden Restaurants, owner of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains, will get a waiver for 34,000 workers, according to the HHS list. Darden spokesman Rich Jeffers didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Dish Network spokesman Marc Lumpkin declined to comment.

The waivers, which last for a year and can then be renewed, let workers keep coverage until new options are available in four years under the law, said Jessica Santillo, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Old Democrat promise: Everyone gets to keep their health insurance.

New Democrat promise: You can keep your health insurance…if you BEG hard enough for an Obamacare waiver.

Yep: The only way for hundreds of thousands of workers to keep their health insurance is to exempt them from the government-imposed “fix.”

The Soros monkeys are attacking conservative Obamacare critics as “Republican repeal mongers” — even as the Obama administration concedes failure and continues to approve temporary repeals of the federal mandates to company after company after union after union.

Waiver-mania also comes on the heels of Democrats’ own push to repeal the onerous 1099 provisions:
A leading Senate Democrat vowed Friday to introduce legislation killing a part of the new healthcare reform law that imposes new tax-filing requirements on small businesses.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee and a leading architect of the reform law, said a provision requiring businesses to report more purchases to the IRS will impose undue paperwork burdens on companies amid an economic downturn when they can least afford it.

Baucus, who had pushed legislation scaling back the requirement earlier in the year, now wants it repealed in full.

“I have heard small businesses loud and clear and I am responding to their concerns,” Baucus said in a statement. “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy in my home state of Montana and across the country, and they need to focus their efforts on creating good-paying jobs — not filing paperwork.”

Guess we are all “repeal mongers” now, eh?
http://web.archive.org/web/20110614192404/http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html
Local 25 SEIU, UFCW Maximus Local 455, Caribbean Workers’ Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Health and Welfare Plan , Capital District Physicians, United Food and Commercial Workers and Participating Employers Interstate Health and Welfare Fund, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1459, Plumbers and Pipefitters Local No. 630 Welfare Fund, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1459 and Contributing Employers Health and Welfare Fund**with all of 4 people listed!, Teamsters Local Union 72 Welfare Fund**, Jack in the Box, QK/DRD (Denny's), and 351,000 with United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund to name a few of over 700 listed here BEFORE site stopped telling off on politicians. CAT IS OUT OF BAG...Heni is out of bottle and the toothpaste is out of the tube!
AS of June 14,2011
2,189,636 set FREE From Health care Bondage for a YEAR ...renewable for another year...GOOD FOR LAWYERS renewing EVERY YEAR but little guy is STILL shafted! DID YOUR company hire a lawyer to get a waiver? Or renew one? 2,189,636 set FREE as of June 14 when the site started HIDING the waivered ELITES from the poi-poi general population NOT YET unscrewed from Obama Health care...NOW at over 3000 enities representing millions of LUCKY waivered folks....probably SECRETLY OVER 10 million by now.! Bunch of unclean illigitimates getting lawyers to save themselves from health care while the REST of America SUFFERS!
May GOD have mercy on everyone's souls...really cannot blame them for trying to be FREE of health care!
http://web.archive.org/web/20110110030732/http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html

Total Enrollees 1,507,418 AKA "Fortunate Sons". with

Assurant Health (2nd Application) second round of FREEDOM.


http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/14/waiver-mania-the-ever-expanding-obamacare-escapee-list/

Obamacare Kills! Get a WAIVER!