And now we must get rid of ALL of them:
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Obama: “ O)h yes I do! Muslims own 104 Burger King franchises “
The basis of all “progressive” laws is the granting of “discretion” to government officials, supposedly because they have some superior ability to make the proper judgements where the individual operating under a fixed set of rules would make improper decisions.
This paradigm also assumes (on the part of the sheeperals) absolute moral purity on the part of the person given the “discretion” in that they will not use it to grant special dispensation to those they like and punish those they don’t.
Both assumptions are WRONG, and upside down from the truth, but exactly what you’d expect from an ideology based on lies.
Exactly. It's as if they are embued with some sort of brilliance the rest of us lack by virtue of the fact that they are a bureaucrat.....excuse me, public servant. Bunch of pukes.
Regulatory agencies are like bug lights for control freak libs. They get to control people’s lives and not be held accountable for the havoc they wreak.
That's why lifelong taxpayer leeches like Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd find it so hard to give up the reins of power. They would rather die in office than run the risk of having to live under the laws they pass for the rest of us.
DING DING DING - We have a winner!
You are exactly right. Politicos will dole out these exemptions just like they do bazillions of other political favors - most of them being special dispensations from some onerous regulatory or tax burden, in return for campaign cash or favors for their own little interest groups or for adherence to some liberal piety.
I can see it now. McDs announces that they will only serve sunshine and arugula prepared with windmill-generated electricity, and they get a pass on the health care coverage.
>>Gawd, what a great cartoon that would make. I HOPE a syndicated comic strip writer does it!<<
See reply #61
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2599474/posts?page=61#61
“exercise her discretion”
So now we live in a society in which we are subject to the whims of political appointees. My country of birth doesn’t really exist anymore.
Exactly - and if you like this discretion wait till you see how this regime provides “Equal Opportunity” access to Health care.
Don’t doubt if the death panels check your party affiliation,before deciding if your child deserves treatment.
These are the most loathsome people on the planet!
Looks like things are unraveling pretty fast for obamacare if McD's can force them to capitulate.
This sure is timely in light of the elections.
This is how fascism works, an arcane , draconian law is not enforced for favorites, but political enemies do not get the same favors.
Get the message yet folks?Support Obama and he will protect you fron his vile laws, but if you oppose Obama,then the nasty laws he has passed will get you and take all you own, thanks to IRS enforcement of the Health Care Law.
I just heard 6 million rifle bolts cycle a round into their breeches!
I detest Obama and everything about his liberal fascist junta. Obama is a parasite on America.He must go!
Eff his Health Care!
And now we must get rid of ALL of them:
So obama is now running a mob-like protection racket?
Once again, Democrats show their contempt for Equal Protection under the Law.
Ahhh...The Corruption Enablement Act is working as intended.
PERFECT!!
Thank you! :)
Or "selective suppression.
No need, contact the French Museums!
Not without a large 'donation' to the DNC.
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