Health care choices curtailed by Obamacare
Well, it does seem that more federal regulations limit our choices: ”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“:
While many restaurants don’t offer health coverage, McDonald’s provides mini-med plans for workers at 10,500 U.S. locations, most of them franchised. A single worker can pay $14 a week for a plan that caps annual benefits at $2,000, or about $32 a week to get coverage up to $10,000 a year.
Last week, a senior McDonald’s official informed the Department of Health and Human Services that the restaurant chain’s insurer won’t meet a 2011 requirement to spend at least 80% to 85% of its premium revenue on medical care. . . .
McDonald’s move is the latest indication of possible unintended consequences from the health overhaul.
And it won’t be the last. So, we’ve got a private company which provides a means to offer health insurance to employees in a business with high employee turn-over, but such an innovative plan won’t pass muster with the bureaucrats administrating Obamacare.
And I thought its goal was to increase health care coverage. Instead, it forces private employers to drop a plan it was offered. More government, fewer choices.
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… then claim that alleged “free markets” have allegedly “failed” as an excuse for even more government, in a vicious cycle. Committed lefties won’t be satisfied with anything less than total government control.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 30, 2010 @ 3:03 am - September 30, 2010
That should be INTENDED consequences.
That was ALWAYS the aim of Obamacare from day one, to force single-payer healthcare on a nation that doesn’t want it by jacking up the cost of healthcare so much, through massive regulation, that employers would start dropping their plans, and employees would turn to the government for a solution.
This was always. always, always the INTENDED plan. Intentionally hurt people for ideological gain. Democrats from congressmen to the presidents advisers are on video admitting it.
Comment by American Elephant — September 30, 2010 @ 3:48 am - September 30, 2010
Meanwhile, President Obama continues to shrink as his campaign looks more & more of desperation with his impromntu backyard chats & his shrill speeches in colleges. Backfire. Keep talking Obama.
Comment by Sebastian Shaw — September 30, 2010 @ 10:29 am - September 30, 2010
Funny thing,
I remember a group of people protesting McDonald’s offering DP coverage. I was going to go heckle them, but donna wasn’t feeling well.
Once again, we see how the Democrats support gay people… but making them as miserable as everyone else.
Yea equality!
Comment by The_Livewire — September 30, 2010 @ 12:39 pm - September 30, 2010
Here we go again trying to pen things on the adminstration, health care should have been apart of our country along. Since there was always a reason not put one in place,now all of you people,and the Rep.Party get the chance to say it is now Obamas problem.Not So, get real and own up to the fact that as long as you so call citizens have your way of sturring up lies, there will never be health care for no one.
Comment by Bernice — September 30, 2010 @ 4:08 pm - September 30, 2010
Unintended consequences my ass!
When business and industry cannot the meet some of these willy-nilly, dangerous and random, pulled-out-of-the-POTUS’-ass” requirements found in this honker of a healthfraud law, those now disenfranchised former policyholders will HAVE to receive the gubments’ miraculous and tasty cure-for-what-ails-you, one-size-fits-all, paid-for-by-the-suckers-in-this-shithole-recipient-class society.
We did good! The people need us, they really, really need us!
—-PelosiReidObammy
Comment by rodney — September 30, 2010 @ 4:16 pm - September 30, 2010
Sorry guys…
—”gubment healthcare insurance policy.”
Should have followed
“-recipient-class society.”
Comment by rodney — September 30, 2010 @ 4:18 pm - September 30, 2010
Um, Bernice, since you’re criticizing my post, do you want to address the points I made and show just exactly how Obamacare didn’t create this problem?
Thanks.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — September 30, 2010 @ 5:39 pm - September 30, 2010
And, Bernice, if you do make another post where you actually address Daniel’s points, do you think you could actually make it moderately intelligible this time? I lost my mental-grammatically-whacked-rambling to English dictionary last week.
Comment by Kristie — September 30, 2010 @ 6:20 pm - September 30, 2010
That $14 a week plan sounds like a ripoff.
$14 x 52 = $726.
The cap is $2000.
So you’re paying $726 to avoid a “possible” $1274?
In three years, you’d be in the red if you don’t use the service…which is what typically happens to most young people.
Comment by John Bailo — September 30, 2010 @ 8:10 pm - September 30, 2010
And if you use the insurance every year, it’s a hell of a good deal.
People forget, insurance of any sort isn’t a ‘pay my bills so I come out ahead’ plan. It’s a ‘betting that I’ll need more than I’m putting in’ plan.
Comment by The_Livewire — October 1, 2010 @ 10:01 am - October 1, 2010