CEOs Could Be Getting Ready To Revolt Against Obamacare

Business Insider ^ | 11/29/2014 | SHARON BEGLEY, REUTERS

[Diana in Wisconsin]

These very same type of ‘Large Employers’ and CEOs went merrily along when smokers were targeted by healthcare companies!

Now that the smokers have either been pink slipped, or managed to quit to keep their jobs, they’re going after the fatties.

I mean seriously, what ELSE do you expect the prior Smoke Nazis and the current Commies in charge to do?

Hey! How about going after abhorrent ‘sex lifestyle choices’ that end up in disease and death?

*Crickets Chirping* *Rolleyes*

Predictable. To a Politically Correct point, that is!

[a fool in paradise]

The programs aim to control healthcare costs by reducing smoking, obesity, hypertension and other risk factors that can lead to expensive illnesses. A bipartisan provision in the 2010 healthcare reform law allows employers to reward workers who participate and penalize those who don't. But recent lawsuits filed by the administration's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), challenging the programs at Honeywell International and two smaller companies, have thrown the future of that part of Obamacare into doubt. The lawsuits infuriated some large employers so much that they are considering aligning themselves with Obama's opponents, according to people familiar with the executives' thinking. "The fact that the EEOC sued is shocking to our members," said Maria Ghazal, vice-president and counsel at the Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives of more than 200 large U.S. corporations. "They don't understand why a plan in compliance with the ACA (Affordable Care Act) is the target of a lawsuit," she said. "This is a major issue to our members."

Add homosexuality to the list of acts that are frowned upon because of health impact and lower lifespan and these boardroom execs will suddenly "get it" why equal opportunity workplace laws protect the "obese".

[Klemper]

My dogs climb up into my bed late at night, and snooze until I wake up... and I have never awakened with a single flea. It must be that anti-flea treatment that I use on the dogs... Sleep with dogs, treat them ahead of time, and NO FLEAS! Read your bible, to clarify.

[Qiviut]

The scorpion has stung the frog ......

[a fool in paradise]

Today they ask for your BMI and blood pressure. Tomorrow they will ask for the incidence of cancer in your family.

[DoughtyOne]

It's about time some group out there did.


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[mware]

Since there is a loop hole in Obama care that will get businesses off the hook from being fined for hiring illegal, and not being forced to give health care or pay a penalty, I see a rash of lay offs for legal Americans.

[Enterprise]

Another truism.

[plain talk]

“The rich don’t need it. Its an expensive giveaway to special interests.”

Spoken like a true liberal. actually some so-called conservatives are not that far apart from liberals when it comes to attacking what they perceive as the “rich”. Of course corporations are not rich or poor. They are corporations with expenses and profits and pass on costs to you and me.

[iacovatx]

This is so “Neville Chamberlain” of those CEO’s. They, the large company CEO’s, were attracted to the ACA because it gave them a way to shove health care costs off their income statements and onto the general public. They are just coming to realize that the Fed Gov has many ways of making them pay and never intended to live up to its promises and suggestions. The CEO’s thought they were insiders in this scam, now they are starting to realize that was never the case.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All part of the plan to force us into “single payer,” where every health care penny passes through the sticky fingers of the feral government.

[rockrr]

I’m threading the line with my employer right now. What they did was to use inducements to encourage participation in the wellness program. That captured nearly all employees who were seeing their healthcare costs double or triple and who were desperate to try and control costs.

This year they offered offsets for healthcare related expenses in exchange for participation in a survey. The survey was extremely invasive and covered ground that I too thought illegal (intimate sexual matters among other topics). And yes it inquired as to my status as a gun owner.

I refused to participate (as did more than half the employees). Shocked at the response, but thimble-brained leftists unable to think their way out of a wet paper bag, they next resorted to threats of INCREASED costs shifted to those employees who failed to “volunteer”.

That’s where we currently stand. I refuse to participate and have mentioned lawsuit if they persist or retaliate (They are rightly scared shiftless of the word “retaliate”).

[iacovatx]

During the 20s through the 40s, Hitler looked to the industrialists for allies. He needed their industrial capabilities and support. However, he sought power and military might. He was never a cheerleader for business, he simply needed them to achieve his ends. The industrialists were only treated respectfully if and while they were of use to him. He was always the supreme power and that always placed Porsche, BMW, Walther, Blohm & Voss, Opel, and all the rest under his watchful eye and control.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Conservatives who attack welfare should be attacking corporate welfare.

We do. But we don't have the bribe money that Obama does.

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[Oshkalaboomboom]

This is so “Neville Chamberlain” of those CEO’s. They, the large company CEO’s, were attracted to the ACA because it gave them a way to shove health care costs off their income statements and onto the general public

A lot of bigger companies also supported it because they were already giving their employees a lot of these benefits anyway and they had competitors who weren't. This enabled them to raise the cost of doing business for their competition without having to do anything on their own like cut the cost of their product to be more competitive. So they were Chamberlains of convenience.

[Pollster1]

Conservatives who attack welfare should be attacking corporate welfare.

Agreed. We need to find common ground with the (small but nonzero) sensible left. We need to eliminate corporate welfare for the good of the country, not as a left-right issue.

We need to ally with the sensible left to improve election security - have the state governments that republicans control agree to pay for ID for those without an acceptable voter ID and have an ID van travel around the state (like a bookmobile) to bring the ID to potential voters, but require photo ID for regular and early voting, and perhaps a fingerprint for absentee ballots. Neutralize both the concern over disenfranchised voters and over voter fraud, so that anyone who objects is obviously doing so for corrupt reasons (the left is mostly doing so for corrupt reasons, but we should fix their valid complaint).

Perhaps we can even ally with the sensible left to fix the illegal alien problem. Those illegals who are working are taking jobs that would otherwise have gone to Americans, and that is an issue that patriotic Americans on the left (yes, there are still a few) and on the right right should agree on. Illegals who are not working are taking government benefits and diluting our ability to help Americans in need, or they are stealing and disproportionately hurting the poor and minorities.

The teacher unions hate common core, as do decent Americans. Perhaps we can ally with them and their supporters to kill it and return local autonomy to school districts.

[CorporateStepsister]

Amen! I’m sick of corporate welfare being ignored. If the business isn’t being run right, let it collapse and let the business drop dead or become restructured. No more taxmoney for businesses.

[dearolddad]

It's a TRADEMARK of Obozo's. He SCREWS everybody EQUALLY.

Are you saying he's an equal opportunity Fu*ker?

[iacovatx]

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