Boycott McDonalds? Lemme think about this. McDonalds applied for and received a waiver. A waiver from a hated piece of legislation. Everybody wants a waiver from this legislation. Is the waiver forever? What if McD’s splits into several companies? Is the waiver transferable? Since the government granted the waiver, the government can rescind the waiver pretty much at whim. It is the government, after all. So, how to evaluate McD’s position as a viable company?
Why was Mickey D’s granted a waiver? Who knows. Graft and corruption probably.
Don’t we send a mixed message if we boycott a business that got a waiver that everyone covets? After all the health care plan is universally hated. Doctors hate it, employers hate it. Those who would protect life hate it. Wouldn’t a boycott instead encourage McD’s to succumb to the legislation in order to stop the boycott? We don’t want to cut off our nose to spite our face.
Now, comes another issue. An equal protection of the laws constitutional issue. How can Congress pass a law and only apply to some and not all equally placed persons? IT CAN’T. The waivers are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The law has to be applied to all or none.
Back in he 60’s Ted Kennedy started the US down this medical insurance path by linking employment to health insurance, requiring full time employers to supply health insurance as part of the package. So now, no one will hire anyone except as contract labor or part time.
And Bambi wonders why the job market is terrible. It is directly related to the Bambi health care plan. WHY CAN’T PEOPLE SEE THIS?
Bambi won't see it because he lives in a bubble of Marxists who feed him info. This why he loses his cool when someone asks tough questions. The people pushing this are composed of at least two groups: those with an agenda (gov. power or personal power), and the useful idiots (layabouts, perpetual students, slackers) who have a loud voice via the internet and are flash-mob connected to protests. They got nothing else to do all day, so they push the power-mongers' agenda. I wish someone would ask the question: why are waivers even available?
I do know. I work for the company that designed their benefits. Mc'Ds was about to lose coverage on about 40,000 hourly workers due to HCR. Specifically because of the annual max and minimum loss ratios.
The administration was put on notice that unless their underwriter (BCS Insurance) got a waiver, they were looking at the biggest news story of the year with 40,000 Americans losing their health insurance (that they liked by the way) almost immediately after the law was passed.
It was nothing more nefarious than HHS running interference to ward off bad press on his new law. The waiver process was created, designed, and implemented to keep the administration out the headlines week after week with poor minimum wage people that no longer had health insurance.