Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO)
No, no, no. What kind of conservative crackpot are you? If you want your district to not have to follow federal laws you don't like, the appropriate action is to (1) pass some toothless local laws saying you're not going to follow them and (2) threaten to secede from the United States if the big bad federal authorities don't agree. You don't petulantly ask the mean representative from the federal gubbermint for a
waiver.
During a House Energy and Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) had a lofty request for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: exempt my entire district from Obamacare.
“I would like to submit a waiver from my district from Obamacare and hope you consider waiving it for the fourth congressional district,” said Gardner, concluding a contentious exchange with Sebelius.
Never have so many politicians gone to such great lengths to make sure insurance companies are still allowed to tell sick people to go to hell. Rep. Gardner's district contains about 100,000 uninsured constituents, not enough for Gardner to particularly care about but too many for him to personally find and steal medication from.