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Debunking The GOP’s Health Care Waiver Hysteria | Justin Berrier has a scathing takedown of the GOP’s attacks against the waivers issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to companies that need additional time to adjust to some of the Affordable Care Act’s regulations. As he points out, after portraying the law as a one-size-fits-all job killer, conservatives are now criticizing the administration for providing flexibility to businesses and falsely portraying the effort as a handout to unions and other members of the Democratic base. “The number of employees granted waivers does favor labor unions,” Berrier explains, “but only because those plans simply cover far more people than any specific private business plan that has sought a waiver. It’s not that labor unions are favored, simply that plans representing more insured individuals have applied.”