At AP, ‘Waivers’ Are For Sports, Not Health Care; NYT Saves Outrage for ‘Something Is Worse Than Nothing’ Plans
It would appear that if it weren't for the center-right blogosphere, Fox News, a few business dailies, a few conservative pundits, and talk radio, very few people would know about the hundreds of waivers granted by the Obama administration to companies, unions, not-for-profits, states, and other entities wishing to be spared the burdens of complying with Obamacare for at least another year. The latest count as of last Wednesday's Health and Human Services Department press release was 732, including four states: Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, and Tennessee. That the waiver situation is not more widely known is largely due to the fact that the establishment press has shown almost no interest in it. The Associated Press has had five days to cover HHS's latest release. It is news, as HHS's release was, as far as I can tell, the first indication that “Over 500 waivers were granted in December.” Here is the result of a search on ” health waivers ” (not in quotes) at the AP's main web site at about 10:00 this morning: In other words, there's nothing relevant. Related searches on ” exemptions ,” ” waiver ,” and ” waivers ” return nothing relevant to HHS's release. At the New York Times, a search on ” health care waivers ”
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