{"id":8527,"date":"2011-02-01T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2011-02-01T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:19:19","slug":"61-say-all-businesses-should-get-obamacare-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8527\/61-say-all-businesses-should-get-obamacare-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"61% Say All Businesses Should Get ObamaCare Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How great a law could ObamaCare be if companies like McDonald\u2019s need a compliance waiver?\u00a0 The surge in waivers granted by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is fast-approaching 800, or <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8458\/hhs-waiver-gate-adds-another-500-exemptions\/ \" target=\"_blank\">a little more than two a day<\/a> since the law went into effect.\u00a0 At some point, exceptional cases swallow the rule.\u00a0 This seems to be the thinking behind <a href=\" http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/january_2011\/majority_of_voters_still_question_health_care_waivers_think_they_should_be_given_to_all \" target=\"_blank\">today\u2019s <em>Rasmussen Reports<\/em> poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact, think that if selected companies receive an exemption from certain aspects of the health care law, all companies should be treated the same way. Twenty percent (20%) now disagree and say all companies should not be given that exemption, but 19% more are undecided. These findings are comparable to the previous survey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where\u2019s the fairness in granting waivers only to a few?\u00a0 Aren\u2019t we all in this socialized health care pool together?\u00a0 Or are some companies too big to comply?\u00a0 If liberals had the courage of their convictions, they\u2019d implement their health care takeover immediately so people would know exactly what it does.\u00a0 Since the law and its proponents would go down in flames in that scenario, instead we\u2019ll continue to see HHS boil the economy slowly, hoping \u201conly\u201d 61% of the people notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How great a law could ObamaCare be if companies like McDonald\u2019s need a compliance waiver?\u00a0 The surge in waivers granted by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is fast-approaching 800, or a little more than two a day since the law went into effect.\u00a0 At some point, exceptional cases swallow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2337,465,476,35,991,1758,1001,2338],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-health-and-human-services","tag-health-care-reform","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-obamacare","tag-poll","tag-rasmussen-reports","tag-repeal","tag-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8532,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/8532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}