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Posted on 09/29/2010 6:55:58 PM PDT by macquire
McDonald's Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul.
The move is one of the clearest indications that new rules may disrupt workers' health plans as the law ripples through the real world.
Trade groups representing restaurants and retailers say low-wage employers might halt their coverage if the government doesn't loosen a requirement for "mini-med" plans, which offer limited benefits to some 1.4 million Americans.
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Actually, I think that might be a good thing. If we are buying it ourselves, it may affect packages/pricing offered.
As much as I HATE the whole “healthcare reform” crap, I must say that insurance companies haven’t done much to help their cause, and even got into bed with the administration with the promise of all these new subscribers. Now they will find out that you just can’t trust a bunch of liars.
Nancy said we'd find out what's in it after it passed.
Personally, I think that medical savings accounts with policies for catastrophic events would be the way to go.
Exactly!
Quite correct. It was a way around wartime wage controls.
More Americans would be outraged if our Republican representatives were getting out there and explaining these things to them. That they’re not, is one reason I’m not holding my breath for repeal. They could ride these events already occurring, as opposed to the lies people were told, all the way to a clean sweep if they wanted to.
I thought it was during Nixon’s wage freeze. I can tell you this, when I was 17 my first job was to assist in doing the payroll at a small manufacturing company. Single insurance was $.97 a week and family coverage was $2.54.
When I read and studied about the Declaration Of Independance in School I assure you the word Creator was not left out like Obama seems to do not once but twice he is a fraud and an evil one at that. It is a sad state of affairs to be sure :(
Then, or later, this was made a tax exempt benefit.
Why you are thinking of Nixon is he proposed what amounted to a Socialized European Medical System and he was handed his head.
That was one of the reasons he found out he didn't have any friends among Republicans when the Democrats went after him.
The next several Presidents took the lesson to heart ~ then we get to Obama. He thinks he and Nixon are different. All I can say is Nixon was a smart guy. Obama isn't.
You bring up an excellent point. Without the deep pockets of insurance companies, where will the cash cow be located for all the lawyers to drain?
The first warehouse job I had cost $2.00 a week for family coverage and this was a non-union job from 1984-1997.
Today, at a different company, I pay $29.73 a week for my wife and I. Kids would be extra per child. Probably will cancel after this year. My wife has coverage and both will go up so much it doesn’t pay to have both.
Dumbo has told a lot of lies over the years. This is just one in a long list of lies.
And I pay $75.00 a week for single coverage. The company only picks up $90.00 a month.
But didn’t Nixon put in wage and price controls?
This had no impact on health care arrangements ~ the laws were already in place by the 1960s.
The question concerned when the employer provided health care system started, and the answer (in the USA) is "during WWII".
Hmmm, $2.00 for family coverage in the 60’s and now it’s more like $125.00.
$1.25.
What's happened since that time is very simple ~ medicine has advanced and they can cure stuff you used to die from. That costs something.
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Would you like fries with that Hope and Change?
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