Guess who is receiving an exemption from Obamacare?

[Nanker]

More good news. A note was sent from HR yesterday saying the maximum amount you can declare in a Flex Spending Account, which allows you to use pre-tax monies to buy your own health care extras - like band aids, tylenol, Dr. visit co-pays, uninsured amounts of medical bills, eyeglasses, hearing aids, child care, is being reduced in 2011 from $7,500 to $2,500 and many of those items will no longer be covered. Furthermore, they won't issue a debit card for the account - everything has to be paid for then a receipt submitted for reimbursement.

 

Sweet deal. Thank you Nancy Pelosi. Boom times are ahead no doubt. Boom times.

[Gary M]

Okay Conner, here's the full list of the companies currently exempted and the number of their employees who are so affected.

Be assured that the list will grow as more contribution-giving-constituencies begin writing more substantial checks to their duly elected Federal lawmakers.

Please wash your brain with this:

 

Fowler Packing Co. [Fruit Grower, Packer, Shipper] (39)

Baptist Retirement [Retirement Homes/Villages; various states] (127)

BCS Insurance [Health Ins Underwriters-Commercial and Private] (115,000)

Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund [Local 17 is the 'Twin Cities' local of UNITE HERE, an international labor union] (881)

Greater Metropolitan Hotel [City Unknown] (1200)

UFT Welfare Fund [NYC Teachers Union] (351,000)

Aegis [unknown] (162) [i believe this is the group Aids Education Global Information System]

Maritime Association [Location various major ports around the country - labor union] (500)

Aetna [insurance Carrier] (209,423)

UABT [united Agribusiness Benefit Trust] (17,347)

Reliance Standard [Group Employee Benefits Provider] (varies)

QK/DRD (Denny's) [Restaurant] (65)

Guy C. Lee Mfg. [building Materials Retailer; North, South Carolina] (312)

I.U.P.A.T [international Union of Painters and Allied Trades] (875)

HealthPort [technology; strategic solutions provider for the healthcare sector] (608)

Jack in the Box [Fast Food] (1,130)

Allflex [Packaging Products/Solutions] (34)

Transport Workers [aviation, oil, waste management, gas, road transport, passenger vehicles and logistics workers union] (107)

Tri-Pak [unknown] (26)

Cryogenic [process measurement and control] (19)

Metro Paving Fund [union perhaps?] (550)

Health Connector [A "Find a Doctor/Care" Service] (3,544)

Health and Welfare Benefit System [provider of health and welfare products for employers] (41)

PS-ILA [business Unknown] (8) [i believe this is a branch of the International Longshoreman's Association]

PMPS-ILA [business Unknown] (15) [i believe this is a branch of the International Longshoreman's Association]

Maverick County [Texas, County Seat-Eagle Pass] (1) <= one lucky guy or gal!

Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. [Products for Aircraft, Commercial, Residential Appl] (326)

GS-ILA [business Unknown] (298) [i believe this is a branch of the International Longshoreman's Association]

Allied [insurance Provider] (127)

CIGNA [insurance Provider] (265,000)

McDonald's Corp [Fast Food] (Unknown)

Which of these isn't a "special interest group"?

The insurance companies?

The labor unions?

The health care companies?

The agriculture businesses?

What gives any of them the right to be treated unequally under the law as the rest of us will be required to be?

And then how about

these guys? WARNING: NSFConner re: SARAH PALIN LINK EMBEDDED WITHIN.

Just to show I'm not heartless and cruel,

here's a link to the same story from a different - but equally red/right-wing/Bush apologist website cbsnews.com.

In case you're fraidy skeered to click the links, here's the salient point contained therein:

Obamacare appears to have a carved out for senior staff members in the leadership offices and on congressional committees, essentially exempting those senior Democrat staffers who wrote the bill from being forced to purchase health care plans in the same way as other Americans.

In other words - the Pope is telling you to not use contraception. In case you missed the analogy, once again, those who don't play the game are making the rules they want everyone else to follow. And those who are well-heeled enough will continue to petition the Pope for indulgences which he'll gladly sell to them at a premium.

 

Doesn't it seem odd that insurance companies can't afford insurance for their employees?

[erynthered]

They paid out 35Million before they realized anything?? Most of that money is now in Armenia I'd bet.

 

http://news.yahoo.co...e_fraud_arrests

 

 

 

The defendants in the New York case also had stolen the identities of doctors and set up 118 phantom clinics in 25 states, authorities said. The names were used to submit fake bills for care that was never given, they said.

 

Some of the phony paperwork was a giveaway: It showed eye doctors doing bladder tests; ear, nose and throat specialists performing pregnancy ultrasounds; obstetricians testing for skin allergies; and dermatologists billing for heart exams.

 

In the New York portion of the case, more $100 million in fraudulent bills were submitted and Medicare paid out at least $35 million, sometimes by wiring it to the clinics' banks accounts, investigators said.

 

 

 

 

[erynthered]

Coming to America!!

 

http://dailycaller.c...as-money-saver/

 

This Saturday, one of Greece's most respected newspapers, To Vima, reported that the nation's largest government health insurance provider would no longer pay for special footwear for diabetes patients. Amputation is cheaper, says the Benefits Division of the state insurance provider.

The new policy was announced in a letter to the Pan-Hellenic Federation of People with Diabetes. The Federation disputes the science behind the decision of the Benefits Division. In a statement, the group argues that the decision is contrary to evidence as presented in the international scientific literature.

 

Greece's National Healthcare System was created in the early 1980s, during the tenure of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Papandreou, an academic, won election under the slogan, Αλλαγή, which is the Greek word for Change.

 

[Nanker]

Coming to America!!

 

http://dailycaller.c...as-money-saver/

 

 

This Saturday, one of Greece's most respected newspapers,

To Vima, reported that the nation's largest government health insurance provider would no longer pay for special footwear for diabetes patients. Amputation is cheaper, says the Benefits Division of the state insurance provider.

The new policy was announced in a letter to the Pan-Hellenic Federation of

People with Diabetes

. The Federation disputes the science behind the decision of the Benefits Division. In a statement, the group argues that the decision is contrary to evidence as presented in the international scientific literature.

Greece's National Healthcare System

was created in the early 1980s, during the tenure of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.

Papandreou, an academic, won election under the slogan, Αλλαγή,

which is the Greek word for Change.

Well then they can't kick (sorry for the pun). They'll still get "healthcare" - won't they? Isn't that the end goal? "Healthcare for all!" "Hey look, we've ALL got HEALTHCARE!" Weeeeee!!!

No friggin feet, but "we got healthcare"!