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So the constraint would have come from the chairman.

Was he within the spirit of the law in terms of communication with his fellow commissioners?

Does this person have a motivation to not recall or is there, on the other side, such motivation?

It was just the way this chairman has elected to do business.

I would love everybody to be able to get a waiver from the entire law, meaning repeal of the law.

If I could, I would like to ask a little bit about the waivers that have been issued for Obamacare.

But the President said--I mean he pledged it time and time again before, during, and after this debate that if you like what you have, you can keep it.

Hopefully by 2014, the law is repealed, and then people really can keep what they like that they currently have.

According to this study, over 30 percent of those companies said they are not going to be able to keep providing it. So the employees lose the care they like. That breaks the President's pledge.

it just seems like there was a favoritism that was shown because, like I said, ironically a lot of the companies and entities that have received the waivers were many of the same that were working with the administration to pass the law

How long have waivers been granted? And can you further expand on who has not been granted waivers and why?

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