McDonald's May Drop Health Plan (but Obama said you could keep your plan!)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703431604575522413101063070.html?KEYWORDS=mcdonald%27s ^

[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.

[macquire]

But, but, but President Obama told us all if we like our plans we could keep them!

[dynachrome]

This is what obozo wants. The 30,000 workers and many others will end up with the obamacare plan. It will cost much less as more workers are added, right?/s

[FlingWingFlyer]

"ObamaCare! You're gonna like it!" - Andy "the AARPster" Mayberry

Hey America! How's that ObamaCare thing workin' for ya? You're going to find out on April 15th.

[TSgt]

How’s that McPresidency going for you Barack?

[KarlInOhio]

And Obama smiles because he’s looking for a government only system to replace our current private health system.

[jimbo123]

This is what The Kenyan and his central planners wanted to happen. It’s all by design.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I work for a logistics trucking company and on the benefits page of our intranet, there are already some major changes coming when the enrollment period hits. I'm fortunate to have full health & dental coverage now, but most of it is going to be limited or disappear altogether.

Why more Americans aren't outraged over this, I don't know. When that bill was being passed back in March, millions of Americans should have stormed the capitol like the French did to the Bastille.

[The Comedian]

"Evil Corporation Denies Healthcare In Spite of Kenyan Messiah Pronouncement"

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[McGavin999]

I know that’s what Bambi had in mind, but what is he going to do when the courts knock out his little plan as unconstitutional? What it will end up with is no insurance for anyone. If you want it, you have to buy it yourself.

[Mr. K]

Or they can sell hamburgers for $6 each!

GO GALT McD’s!!

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP

[ClearCase_guy]

If you want it, you have to buy it yourself.

That's the way it always should have been. I think around WWII people started getting covered through their employer as a sort of "wage increase" and it was a mistake that led us to where we are today.

If Obama's plan collapses (and I think it will) we may have a chance to transition to individuals choosing plans from across the country. I'd love to see legislation which opens up additional choices rather than steers us into a rotten single payer plan.

[jimbo123]

Obama hates America and he’s laying waste to as much of America as he can before he’s thrown out of office.

[funfan]

Yeah Andy likes it cause he got lots of money to make that ad spot for Obama. I can not stand Obama, anyone who voted for him and any of the liberals in congress. These people are threatinging the America I know and love and grew up in. I dont want to live in a Communist country

[Brilliant]

The new McDonald’s healthcare plan: Have a Big Mac.

[FlingWingFlyer]

That makes two of us. I’m too old to go commie now. I’ve been an American all my life.

[McGavin999]

No, actually it happend in the late 50’s to early 60’s. It was during the wage freeze (Nixon?). It was the only way the employers could give their employees something extra.

[johnandrhonda]

Maybe they didn’t know what’s in the bill, or still don’t like me...and you.

[funfan]

Your right they are called fringe beneifts and they are added to your compensation package. Starting in 2011 those so called benefits will have to be listed on your W-2 forms
and I am not talking what the liberals are calling “Cadillac Plans” any insurance benifts from your employers you will be taxed on. FUBO and the horse you rode in on

[McGavin999]

It would be great if we could buy our own. I’ve been paying into the “system” for 48 years and I think I’ve put in two claims (and they were minor stuff). Wish I had all that money back now.