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To: FJB who wrote (393100)	11/14/2010 2:50:10 PM
From: greenspirit	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794032

This issue gives Republicans the opening they need to repeal Obamacare. I would begin hearings immediately and bring the Secretary of Health & Human Services in for questioning. Then I would ask him/her to explain each and every sentence of this waiver document, with the underlying theme, if Obamacare is so great, why are we waiving so many corporations? Then I would question each metric to be granted a waiver and ask what criteria is used to make the decision. I would also ask whether any of these companies have made political contributions to the Democratic party and ask whether any waivers have been denied - if so why? hhs.gov

To: FJB who wrote (393100)	11/14/2010 3:03:05 PM
From: greenspirit	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794032

The more I think about this waiver nonsense, the more ridiculous it is. Just a few months ago, Team Obama and the Democratic party stood on a platform and had a signing ceremony extolling the virtues of Obamacare, with Biden saying it was a "Big F'n Deal". What's the sense in passing a law, if you intend to waiver so many companies from the law a few months later! It's perhaps the most extreme admission of how incompentently written the law was. Are waivered companies required to have a team of legal experts available to answer questions and submit a litany of documents? Will the law only apply to small companies, because, they lack the legal talent to write the legal mumbo-jumbo documents required to be waivered? Will the law only apply to companies which have no political connections? I want to see the dimwit wignuts on the extreme left defend this waiver process. Bring every one of them in front of television camera's and put them under oath for intense questioning. The American people deserve to know why so many companies are being waivered.