Posted on 09/30/2010 7:12:27 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
The Obama administration said Thursday that its top health official will "exercise her discretion" in enforcing a new health-law requirement, a move that could help McDonald's Corp. and other employers from disrupting their health-care policies for hourly workers.
The announcement Thursday followed a report in The Wall Street Journal that McDonald's warned federal regulators it could drop its health-insurance plan for nearly 30,000 restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the health overhaul. The requirement, known as the minimum medical loss ratio, concerns the percentage of revenue received from premiums that must be spent on benefits.
McDonald's is among the retailers and restaurant chains that offer a "mini-med" limited benefit. Most of these plans don't meet a 2011 requirement that they spend 80% to 85% of premiums on medical benefits instead of overhead expenses.
McDonald's last week sent a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services a memo saying "it would be economically prohibitive for our carrier to continue offering" its "mini-med" limited benefit plan unless it got an exemption from the requirement.
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And still no one is building the needed guillotines to clean up the filthy marxist mess progressives have become.
Hmmmm, seems to be a pattern with the Obama administration.
Won’t this give every other corporation that uses mini-meds standing to sue for discrimination?
They haven't posted ours yet, and I'm terrified of what it's going to be.
LOL. PERFECT
What about equal protection?
If the Courts allow this law to continue, they will be tinkering with chaos. The cronyism will drive many individuals off the deep end.
Get with the program! We no longer have a constitution...we do not currently have a president...we are no longer functioning as a "rule of law" society/country.
The Constitution was made null and void the day that POE currently soiling the People's House was permitted to usurp the office of president. Without a whimper our country was conquered.
Why, the Dictator-in-Chief of course!
Seriously -- folks need to WTFU as to what has happened to our country.
BUMP!
It's the old Soviet model, comrades.
raptur 22-—This is exactly the way I am thinking......I think Mickey D’s is just another rung in the ladder to achieve a one payer system [gov health care]. The bozo in charge wants to destroy the private insurance industry.....and here is the first of many companies saying they will have to stop giving insurance. This crap is falling right into place for this administration....and it just pisses me off! 2012 can’t get here fast enough for me!
BS. The white house lies.
They have mandated that an insurance company can NEVER have more than 15-20% of premiums go for overhead costs: workers, advertising, profit, etc.
Notice there is no provision for the difference between good, bad, and average years.
What if 2011 turns out to be a bad year for claims and and it takes 99% of premiums to pay for those claims? Is there a provision that they get to go in and demand their overhead and profit? Hardly.
How do the insurance companies handle it? There are good years, too. Some years the claims amount to only 65% of the premiums. And then there are the good years.
It balances out over time.
Essentially, Congress has signed legislation that forbids fluctuations in markets.
They are idiots and I despise them for the idiots they are....refusing to real or allow to be read their stupid legislation.
Clean house. Clean senate.
Throw the bastards out.
But, “To suppose that ‘due process of law’ meant one thing in the Fifth Amendment and another in the Fourteenth is too frivolous to require elaborate rejection.” Malinski v. New York
And
"The "equal protection of the laws" is a more explicit safeguard of prohibited unfairness than "due process of law," and, therefore, we do not imply that the two are always interchangeable phrases. But, as this Court has recognized, discrimination may be so unjustifiable as to be violative of due process." Bolling v Sharpe
The actions of discrimination are everywhere in this health care Bill. Shoot, this is just the only area where this Bill is not on par with the Constitution.
IOW the 'law' is only symbolic and will be 'enforced' as necessary...
thats not a backing down to me, more of an overt threat that they will do whatever the hell they want to non conformers...
This is exactly what they were planning.
Every decision is now a political one. The law is whatever the Secretary or who she appoints decides it is.
Everyone, from huge companies on down has to kowtow to the politically anointed one for their very existence.
Can you spell TYRANNY???????
A Socialist Utopia has a singular executive who is able to force a desired outcome by changing the laws as unintended consequences come up. That is what we have.
This “exercise her discretion” is unacceptable. It is a violation of “equal protection under the law” and an invitation to bribery and other forms of corruption.
Ha haaaaa!!! Ubama is issuing exemptions from UbamaCare?
Gee. I wonder how much of a campaign contribution MickeyD’s will have to make to the DNC for this special dispensation.
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