The ObamaCare Waiver Thread

[boedicca]

I'm starting this thread to track all of the companies and organizations which are given waivers from ObamaCare.

Here's the current list with the number of enrollees after the name of the org:

1 Fowler Packing Co. 39

2 Baptist Retirement 127

3 BCS Insurance 115,000

4 Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund 881

5 Greater Metropolitan Hotel 1200

6 UFT Welfare Fund 351,000

7 Aegis 162

8 Maritime Association 500

9 Aetna 209,423

10 UABT 17,347

11 Reliance Standard varies

12 QK/DRD (Denny's) 65

13 Guy C. Lee Mfg. 312

14 I.U.P.A.T 875

15 HealthPort 608

16 Jack in the Box 1,130

17 Allflex 34

18 Transport Workers 107

19 Tri-Pak 26

20 Cryogenic 19

21 Metro Paving Fund 550

22 Health Connector 3,544

23 Health and Welfare Benefit System 41

24 PS-ILA 8

25 PMPS-ILA 15

26 Maverick County 1

27 Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. 326

28 GS-ILA 298

29 Allied 127

30 CIGNA 265,000

TOTAL ENROLLEES 968,765


Approved Applications for Waiver of the Annual Limits Requirements of the PHS Act Section 2711 as of September 30, 2010


A couple of observations:

Some of these organizations have very low amounts of enrollees for waiver. I suspect that the actual numbers are higher.

And we will certainly see more as the days roll by.

And this doesn't include the state exemptions for Medicare Advantage.

 

[boedicca]

Aha.

The total is now 110.

Approved Applications for Waiver of the Annual Limits Requirements of the PHS Act Section 2711 as of November 1, 2010

 

[Revere]

The best thing you can say about Obamacare is that you can bail out of it if you have the right political connections.

 

[code1211]

The best thing you can say about Obamacare is that you can bail out of it if you have the right political connections.

This hard to imagine. Are you trying to say that political pay offs and favoritism have some connection to the Obama administration? Shocking!

 

[B. Kidd]

The best thing you can say about Obamacare is that you can bail out of it if you have the right political connections.

Chicago style politics NOW firmly embedded into the Federal bureaucracy.

 

[boedicca]

I'm thinking we should all apply for waivers.

 

[boedicca]

And as an aside, another Epic Fail of ObamaCare: approximately 8K people have signed up for the ObamaCare program for the uninsured, a far cry from the estimated 357K-400K that the Obamanoids had estimated. This certainly puts the math skillz they applied to Jobs Saved & Created in clearer perspective as well.

In today's fierce moral urgency of change news, it turns out the market for government health insurance for the uninsured is about 50 times smaller than Obamacare proponents told us it would be. Of course, we opponents of Obamacare were arguing last year this problem was overblown, and it appears in retrospect even our most parsimonious estimates were vastly too generous:

Mr. Obama declared at the time that "uninsured Americans who've been locked out of the insurance market because of a pre-existing condition will now be able to enroll in a new national insurance pool where they'll finally be able to purchase quality, affordable health care--some for the very first time in their lives."

So far that statement accurately describes a single person in North Dakota. Literally, one person has signed up out of 647,000 state residents. Four people have enrolled in West Virginia. Things are better in Minnesota, where Mr. Obama has rescued 15 out of 5.2 million, and also in Indiana--63 people there.
...
Combined federal-state enrollment is merely 8,011 nationwide as of November 1, according to HHS.

This isn't what HHS promised in July, when it estimated it would be insuring 375,000 people by now, and as many as 400,000 more every year....

Classical Values :: We Told You So

 

[The T]

Stellar! Yeoman's Work! A tip of the fedora for the thread.

 

[boedicca]

Here's the list of the current 101 Waivees...I expect this will exceed 1,000 before long.

Advanta
Adventist Care Centers
Aegis
Aegis Insurance
Aetna
Agricare
AHS
Alaska Seafood
Allflex
Alliance One Tobacco
Allied
American Fidelity
AMF Bowling Worldwide
Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund
Assisted Living Concepts
Assurant Health (2nd Application)
B.E.S.T of NY
Baptist Retirement
BCS Insurance
Belmont Village
Boskovich Farms, Inc
Caliber Services
Captain Elliot's Party Boats
Carlson Restaurants
Case & Associates
CH Guenther & Son
CIGNA
CKM Industries dba Miller Environmental
Convergys
Cracker Barrel
Cryogenic
CWVEBA
Darden Restaurants
Darensberries
DISH Network
Diversified Interiors
Duarte Nursery
Employees Security Fund
Florida Trowel Trades
Fowler Packing Co.
Gallegos Corp
Gowan Company
GPM Investments
Grace Living Centers
Greater Metropolitan Hotel
Greystar
Groendyke Transport,* Inc
GS-ILA
GuideStone Financial Resources
Guy C. Lee Mfg.
Harden Healthcare
HCR Manor Care
Health and Welfare Benefit System
Health Connector
HealthPort
I.U.P.A.T
IBEW No.915
Ingles Markets
Integra BMS for Culp, Inc.
Jack in the Box
Jeffords Steel and Engineering
Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund
Local 25 SEIU
Local 802 Musicians Health Fund
Macayo Restaurants
Maritime Association
MAUSER Corp.
Maverick County
Medical Card System
Meijer
Metro Paving Fund
Mountaire
New England Health Care
O.K. Industries
O'Reilly Auto Parts
Periodical Services
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund
PMPS-ILA
Pocono Medical Center
Preferred Care, Inc.
Protocol Marketing Group
PS-ILA
QK/DRD (Denny's)
Regis Corporation
Reliance Standard
Ruby Tuesday
Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
Sasnak
Service Employees Benefit Fund
Star Tek
Sun Belt
Sun Pacific Farming Coop
Swift Spinning
The Buccaneer
The Dixie Group, Inc.
The Pictsweet Co.
Transport Workers
Tri-Pak
UABT
UFCW Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust
UFCW Local 1262
UFCW Local 227
UFCW Maximus Local 455
UFT Welfare Fund
Uncle Julio's
UniFirst
United Group
Universal Forest Products
US Imaging
Vino Farms
Whelan Security Company

 

[The T]

I am glad you've decided to put these facts up. It bolsters what I had eluded to in another thread. Why all the requests for deferrals? Waivers... if Obamacare is the cat's meow it is supposed to be?

 

[Big Fitz]

Since all of industry is being approved to be exempted, who's left to pay for this shit?

Here's a crazy ass idea, since it's patently destructive anyway, repeal it and simplify the legal and tax codes.

just saying.

 

[The T]

Since all of industry is being approved to be exempted, who's left to pay for this shit?

Here's a crazy ass idea, since it's patently destructive anyway, repeal it and simplify the legal and tax codes.

just saying.

Exactly. But then Control would be lost...Gubmint cannot have that.

 

[boedicca]

It's telling that there are quite a few Union Locals on the list.

 

[The T]

It's telling that there are quite a few Union Locals on the list.

I don't doubt it.

 

[Trajan]

Back! back I say....stand back everyone......don't Panic!!!!

Greenbeard will be here momentarily to explain it all.

Hes been in touch with the New England Healthcare Institute , whos that you ask? Why thank you, its a think tank dedicated to transforming health care for the benefit of patients and their families.( its mission statement and hat tip Hot Air)....


what? no way....they have been granted a waiver too? get the frug outta here ...seriously???

 

[boedicca]

It's the MO for DoGooder Gubmint: Do as we say, not as we do.