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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...law07_ST_N.htm
Nearly a million workers won't get a consumer protection in the U.S. health reform law meant to cap insurance costs because the government exempted their employers.
The biggest single waiver, for 351,000 people, was for the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, a New York union providing coverage for city teachers.
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This is yet more bullshit. Your making it sound like "the government is allowing these companies to bypass health care reform". The truth is more like if they don't do this, everyone who works for those companies will be loosing their healthcare.
Third paragraph of your article:
The Department of Health and Human Services, which provided a list of exemptions, said it granted waivers in late September so workers with such plans wouldn't lose coverage from employers who might choose instead to drop health insurance altogether.
This sounds like a good idea to me. Give them a waiver to prevent part time employees - who really don't deserve full time benefits to begin with - and allow the rest of the full time employees to keep their benefits.
Why do you twist this around saying "look what our government is doing" when the truth seems to be - from your own article - is going to keep hundreds of thousands of people in healthcare.
I love politics. "Let's take an article and make it look like the government is denying people stuff, when the truth is they are trying to save stuff".