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Story #5: Obamacare Waivers Jump From 222 to 729

RUSH: "A week after Republicans announced plans to investigate waivers granted to organizations for healthcare reform provisions, President Obama’s health department made public new waivers for more than more than 500 groups." (laughing) What are we up to here? We gotta be pushing 800 companies, unions, and groups who have been given permission to ignore the new health care law. We heard about McDonald's. I love this story. All during the health care debate we kept hearing from the left what a rotten bunch of people McDonald's are because they don't pay their employees health insurance. So Obamacare passes, and McDonald's says, "You know what? We're gonna need an exemption from this or we're gonna have to fire a lot of people because we simply can't afford the health care provisions required in this bill." And it was an election year, so Obama, the regime, granted the waiver to McDonald's. The waiver, when anybody gets one, basically the government's saying, "Okay, the law doesn't apply to you." So another 500 waivers have been granted.

"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is granting temporary waivers to organizations that would not be able to meet the reform law’s new requirement for annual coverage limits." We're gonna lower premiums, everybody was gonna get covered. The cost of care was gonna go down. Everybody was gonna get treatment. And now we find out that people need waivers because they can't meet the law's new requirement for annual coverage limits. "As of last week, HHS had granted waivers to 222 organizations --" I thought it was higher than that, but we'll go with that, this is The Hill. "Two hundred twenty-two organizations covering 1.5 million individuals. Though the number of groups receiving waivers has now more than tripled, the number of individuals covered by the waivers increased just 600,000 to 2.1 million. The law gives HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the flexibility to grant waivers." And this "as the secretary shall determine." That phrase is throughout Obamacare, "as the secretary shall determine."

Why are they granting these waivers? I thought this law was the panacea. This law was gonna cover 32 million people that didn't have insurance, including those McDonald's employees and those Wendy's employees and those Walmart employees and those Burger King employees, and the Taco Bell employees. Now we find out those people had health care to one degree or another, and with the new law they can't afford to maintain the health coverage they're giving they're employee. They need an exemption, they need to be forgiven, they need to be told, "All right, the law doesn't apply to you." But we are told this is just temporary. Well, clearly, ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is there. This law is going to -- and by design -- if these waivers weren't granted, what would happen to these people? You would lose the health care that the president said, "If you like your health care coverage, you keep it. If you like your doctor, you keep him. If you like the coverage you got, if you like the plan you've got, why, nothing's gonna change." Well, yeah, unless you get a waiver. But what if the waivers weren't granted? What would happen to these people? They would have no health care, either that or McDonald's shuts down, one of the two.

What do you think McDonald's gonna do? The employee says, "All right, all right, I'd rather have a job without health care than health care and no job." Well, maybe some people would say that. Well, they wouldn't have, either, because McDonald's would go out of business, or come close to it. So the law is being touted by all these people as the panacea and it's clearly harmful, but these waivers are temporary. Obviously they're temporary because winning the future is all about winning in 2012, and after that all bets are off. So every day we continue to learn about the absolutely destructive characteristics of Obamacare each and every day, and that's why the polling data keeps showing more and more people oppose it, more and more people want it repealed. No matter how much Obama tries to sell it, no matter how much he talks about it or little in his health care or State of the Union speech, no matter what they've done, they cannot sell this to people. And that's healthy, folks, I'll tell you why. Because the root reason they can't is 'cause people don't want government in charge of this. Americans are not Europeans yet and don't want the government in charge of any of this, plain and simple.