On the recordFebruary 2, 2011
I would like to see every citizen in this country get a waiver. I would like every State to have an opportunity to get waivers because last week the Secretary of Health and Human Services gave another 500 new waivers. The total now is 729 waivers. You can find them on the HHS Web site. It covers 2.2 million people. It is interesting because before this bill was passed through in the middle of the night, labor unions publicly supported this health care law. Now there are 166 union benefit funds that are exempt and have gotten the waivers. They got the waivers. Unions now have 860,000 out of the 2.2 million waivers. Unions now have 40 percent of all the waivers even though they are only 7 percent of the private sector workforce in this country. My question to my colleague is, if this law is so good, why do so many people who supported it in the first place now say they don't want it to apply to them?...
