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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The Equal Protection Clause, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
Unfortunately Presidents (Republican and Democrat) appoint people who are in agreement with the idea that the Judiciary should be deferential to the Executive branch.
I could understand the Burger King because he is, after all, royalty. Bowing to a clown is something completely different.
“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.”
Hallmark of fascism. Winners and losers chosen according to political whim.
No incremental changes or tweaking this or that.
Dump the whole socialist takeover,then we move on to other things like the Department of Education.
So is Obama going to re-write ObamaScare just for McDonald’s? Likely blowing smoke up Micky Ds rear for the November elections.
You are right. Most of us are screwed.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
Kind of like they do at the Justice Department.
SITUATIONAL_ETHICS_PING!
You must be young. Mine vanished many decades ago.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
Good question. He and his ilk are so slimey, I could see them trying to force McDonald's and other large corporations, like Walmart, into accepting unions, in exchange for immunity from his health care plan.
Who wrote a law that allows a single appointed person in the executive branch to actually decide who has to follow the law and who doesn’t?
Yah well you've already provided the qualifier. Where's the enforcement?
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
G*d damm*t, but government sucks.
I agree. But I wonder. Who plays the role of Wesley Mouch? There are so many to choose from.
equal protection under the law??? would the same happen for a small company.....
What does it matter? America is dead -- get over it and figure your part in our way forward. Or cave; it doesn't matter. It's over and too many don't understand it.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
The expression Rule of law” came as a child of””freedom from the arbitary application of power”. Naked power is Government. An unjust soverign was aritrary and the fatal flaw of Monarchy or Oligarcy. With the application of naked power always in the hand of someone life is not free.
The tyrant King or the tyrant Democracy is free to be arbitrary.
By the arbitrary release of a McDonald a Campbell can be made to toe the line — sell its Tartan and its soup.
We want “fairness” after all and pray the Annointed One will grant it in this new church we find ourseves in.
obama bows to Ronald McDonald
And 0bama can kiss America’s a$$.
I wonder how long it took the Obama Administration to threaten McDonalds into reversing course on this.
One clown bowing to another.
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