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Nancy Pelosi Hoarding Obamacare Waivers. Should She Resign?

Should Nancy Pelosi Resign?

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Health Care Law | San Francisco | Nancy Pelosi | The Daily Caller


Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.

If this is such a great thing, why is she collecting waivers for her district?

The question I propose is should she resign?
 
please god..... yes
 
Pelosi should resign just because.
 
As long as San Franciscans like her, they will keep voting her in. Doesn't matter what everyone else thinks.
 
Any reason for Pelosi to resign is a good reason.
 
Don't think she should "resign" for something that "looks bad." I think that she should resign if she has done something illegal, or if San Franciscans (the people she serves) are unsatisfied with her performance.
 
As long as San Franciscans like her, they will keep voting her in. Doesn't matter what everyone else thinks.

San Francisco shouldn't be allowed to punish America like that :lol:

Eh, if Pelosi resigns another political extremist will be elected to replace her.
 
Hey man, where you been?

Work, yard, house, and spring gardening --- in short RL is getting in the way. But it's relatively under control so I should be back on a little now. I did need a break though - was getting burned out.
 
For that? No. In the land of Congressional wasteful spending, that's the equivalent of taking a longer shower or ordering bacon on your Whopper. If this was the biggest public sector mismanagement of funds, I'd be thrilled - for anyone on either side of the aisle.

San Francisco is full of liberal idiots, but those liberal idiots enjoy the same right to vote as other Americans.
 
No. She is democratically elected to that position. If she continues to be elected then no unless her people from her district want her to resign then we should seriously think about it..
 
fascinating. So Obamacare Is Wonderful and Good and Creates Jobs and that's why it's So Important that it Not Be Allowed In My District.
 
This would be illegal if all or even if MOST of these companies contributed to her campaign, but this is merely speculation.
 
Here is the explanation for it. They are applying for waivers because of a law passed in 2008. This information was not public when the Daily Caller published.


In actuality, Aitken explained, the high percentage of waivers is the byproduct of local law rubbing against the new national legislation. In April 2008, San Francisco passed an ordinance requiring employers to spend a minimum amount per hour on health care for their employees who work in the city. In response, a number of eateries chose to set up Health Reimbursement Arrangements, which are essentially pools of funds set aside by employers to reimburse medical expenses paid by employees.

HRAs are serviced by a third-party administrator or plan service provider. They are also subject to the annual limit provision in the national health care law, which is set at $750,000 in 2011 before it is eliminated fully in 2014.

Like many self-insurance policies and union organizations, employers using HRAs have been applying for a waiver from this provision, arguing that application of the requirements would "completely eliminate the benefit" of setting up the HRA in the first place, Flex-Plan Services said. When they do so, they turn not to lawmakers like Pelosi or to the employers themselves, but to third-party administers like Aitken's company. (And, as she hinted, political donations by Flex-Plan have leaned Republican, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.)

"These are some of the administrative hiccups that, I think, when you have a giant health care overhaul like this, you’re bound to have," said Aitken. "And I think that’s exactly why [the Department of Health and Human Services] put in the option for waivers, because they knew that there are some players who have different types of arrangements all over the nation."

On January 7, 2011, Flex Plan first requested waivers for its clients. In a letter to the HHS, the company's attorney Tina Ann Davis, wrote that, “[m]any of our HRAs were implemented by employers to satisfy local law requirements, provide coverage that otherwise would not be offered, or to help employees with their out-of-pocket medical care costs," the letter reads. "HRAs allow these employers to comply with the local law while providing an affordable health care benefit to their employees."

Aitken confirmed the authenticity of this letter.

This information, however, was not public knowledge prior to the Daily Caller's piece. And the disclosure on Tuesday morning that a number of businesses in Pelosi's own district had been granted waivers immediately became partisan fodder, with the Drudge Report linking to the story and the topic being pushed during White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's briefing.


Nancy Pelosi Is Being 'Thrown Under The Bus,' Says Company That Requested Health Care Waivers
 
do you honestly believe it is merely a coincidence?

94% of all companies that applied for waivers got them. They wouldn't have needed her help in getting them. To act as though she did something illegal or immoral is silly and unless you have something more than your hatred for her to go off of I'd suggest people quit spreading lies.
 
There's nothing really illegal about this, and even ethically compared to actual "ethics violations" in congress I wouldn't say this is much of a thing. So as much as I'd love to see Nancy gone, nothing to resign over here.
 
Health Care Law | San Francisco | Nancy Pelosi | The Daily Caller

If this is such a great thing, why is she collecting waivers for her district?

The question I propose is should she resign?

Re: Obamacare Waivers
I looked at the waver list. These are examples of what I found:
Applicant and Number of Enrollees
24 Hour Fitness 1,758
Bowman Sheet Metal Heating & Air-conditioning 4
Discovery Benefits* 3,739
Heritage Christian Services 4,662
MVP 21,548
Teamsters Union Local # 35 1,109
Excellus Health Plan 18,860
PepsiCo, Inc. 301
American Heritage Life Insurance Company 69,945
Noodles & Company 159

It’s nothing like DashingAmerican or cpwill are claiming. For the whole list, not a faux list, go to Helping Americans Keep the Coverage They Have and Promoting Transparency | HHS.gov

What is interesting is that PepsiCo, Inc. and Noodles & Company have 460 employees total that they are exempting. Do you have a guess as to why so few employees of such large corporations were applied for and are to be exempted?
I do.
 
Should Nancy Pelosi Resign? What for? Do some research please.

These waivers are approved for an overwhleming majority of everyone who applied for them. To say that they are only going to those that are connected is silly. As for complainin that some get to bypass the law, these waivers were written in to the law so that businesses and health insurance companies that need more time to comply could get some extra time. That's a good thing. This is just conservatives complaining for the purpose of complaining.

Lets just say that you were in Sebellius's shoes. The law was passed. You can't stop it from being implemented so you have to factor out any distaste for the bill that you might have. If there are businesses coming o you and applying for waivers that are part of the bill anyways, and they are saying that if they don't get this one year waiver they would have a hard time switching everything over or finding a new plan would you rather destabilize some businesses or would you just give them a waiver which was written in to this bill just for this reason?
 
Re: Obamacare Waivers
I looked at the waver list. These are examples of what I found:
Applicant and Number of Enrollees
24 Hour Fitness 1,758
Bowman Sheet Metal Heating & Air-conditioning 4
Discovery Benefits* 3,739
Heritage Christian Services 4,662
MVP 21,548
Teamsters Union Local # 35 1,109
Excellus Health Plan 18,860
PepsiCo, Inc. 301
American Heritage Life Insurance Company 69,945
Noodles & Company 159

It’s nothing like DashingAmerican or cpwill are claiming. For the whole list, not a faux list, go to Helping Americans Keep the Coverage They Have and Promoting Transparency | HHS.gov

What is interesting is that PepsiCo, Inc. and Noodles & Company have 460 employees total that they are exempting. Do you have a guess as to why so few employees of such large corporations were applied for and are to be exempted?
I do.

I claimed nothing.
 
You made the claim "... why is she collecting waivers for her district?"
Now support yoour claim or admit it was bogus.

It WAS bogus. More BS spin from the GOP salesmen. Make America GREAT...... by decieving your fellow man so they vote for us!!!
 
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