receiving health care waivers. who is getting a free pass on the health care law? it turns out a whole bunch of labor union. stu varney has been doing his labor homework and he joins us bright and early. at least you re doing your math homework. what did you find out? a total of 543,000 union members are now waived from accepting the new rules under obamacare. 543,000. 69,000 private employees. so these waivers are heavily skewed towards the unions which were heavy backers of obamacare. what does a waiver give? ok, the new law says you can t have an annual or lifetime limit on the benefits paid. if you re going to do that, you re going to charge a whole lot more for the premium in the first place unless you get a waiver so the unions get a waiver. it s like mini meds, that s a limited benefit package offered by some companies frpt that s going to be down away with under obamacare. do away with that, you have to charge a lot more for health
alive and sharing her horrific story. remember those government health care waivers. it turns out for every waiver that went to private companies, $700 went to the unions. oh, stuart varney doesn t like that one little bit. he s coming up next. good morning, stu. sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and how can you talk to me about fiber while you are eating a candy bar? you enjoy that. i am.
white house came in and persuaded judges to dishonor those loans and the money that chrysler had remaining in the bank account, give it to the labor unions who voted for president obama who supported him financially instead of to the bondholders and the people who had loaned money to chrysler. that violated 600, if you go back to the beginning of bankruptcy in england, 600 years of bankruptcy law in which people who loaned money to the bankrupt get paid back first. dodd-frank, a lot of people don t like it, i didn t know it was constitutional. if you and i want to put our money together and give it to gretchen to invest because we like her and we trust her, should we need the government s permission? dodd-frank says yes. and dodd-frank says if you re going to do that, we will decide whether or not it s a prudent investment. the constitution says you can dispose of your property however you want. let s end the way we started, the health care waivers, health care, wait a second, i
during the earthquake. right now, the monument closed indefinitely. pending roof repairs. meanwhile, the northern lights are heading south tonight and they could be visible as far south as colorado, the reason, large solar flares are sparking huge geomagnetic storms. storms may cause disruptions in cell phones and gps service which would be a handy excuse if you want to drop a call. well, union workers make up only a schamall percentage of t working public so why are they getting almost half of the health care waivers? senator barrasso w here earlier to react to that. even though union workers are 1 in 8 workers in america, they got almost half the waivers. thpresident promised, if you like what you have, you can keep it and he said the costs would go down and unions and others have said, this is financially impossible to live within these laws. a new rule proposed by health
amanda knox s appeal of her murder conviction in italy yesterday. prosecutors showed graphic pictures of meredith kutcher s body. that was her roommate and called knox a demonic she levdevil. knox and her ex-boyfriend insist they are innocent. steve? thank you, gretch. president obama s health care law is on the fast track now to the u.s. supreme court. and the law s legality may be decided before the 2012 election. yesterday, the obama administration decided not to ask an atlanta area appeals court to review its decision against the lawmaking the supreme court the next likely landing spot. this comes as more health care waivers may soon be announced. so far, over 1300 companies and unions have been granted waivers from the law s new rules and joining us right now, wyoming senator and orthopedic surgeon, senator john barrasso. good morning to you, senator. thanks for having me. let s start with the headline and that sounds like next stop