Posted on 10/01/2010 6:28:43 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Among President Obama's core health-care promises was that Americans can keep their current coverage if they like it. Among the reasons that a new ObamaCare squall blows in every other day is that this claim simply is not true, as people are discovering.
The latest fracas was incited by Janet Adamy's scoop in the Journal this week that McDonald's Corp. may be forced to cancel its current coverage for 29,500 employees as a result of ObamaCare. McDonald's told Health and Human Services regulators that new mandates will make its plans "economically prohibitive" and cause "a huge disruption" unless it gets a waiver.
At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claimed that the Journal story was "flat-out wrong," adding that "I'm sorry that they were not more accurate in their reporting." If only for the sake of her own credibility, at some point Ms. Sebelius is going to have to try to persuade people who actually know something about the industries she regulates.
In a statement, McDonald's did say that it was "completely false" to suggest that "we plan to drop health care coverage for our employees," and "regardless of how the regulations evolve over the next several months, McDonald's is committed to providing competitive pay and benefits." No doubt that's true: McDonald's will still need to attract workers—not to mention that corporations of its size and brand recognition are very sensitive to political intimidation.
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Obama’s goal is to destroy private insurance and to leave us asking about Obamacare: Would you like fries withh that?
Obama’s goal is to destroy private insurance and to leave us asking about Obamacare: Would you like fries with that?
Obama’s goal is to destroy private insurance and to leave us asking about Obamacare: Would you like fries with that?
I’m lovin’ it
Is this real, or photo-shopped?
I don’t know, because I found it on the web.
Big Mac Bump!
I predict McDonalds will not get a waiver per se, but special tax credits that will allow them to operate as they are now.
This way the big players get what they want and joe/jane taxpayer is none the wiser.
Rush has been brilliant on this issue for the past couple days. This is exactly what Obamacare set out to do, although the ramifications are setting in a couple years early (according to Rush). Our Dear Leader truly meant it when he talked about "fundamentally changing America".
Thank!
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