10-01-2010, 07:14 PM
Dakota wrote:
[quote=Grace62]
[quote=Ted King]
Also, mini-med plans are about as close to not being insured as you can get and still be called medical insurance (e.g., MacDonald's "employees who go with the minimum plan pay $14 a week for a policy that won't cover more than $2,000 in medical bills a year. Employees who opt for the "generous" option pay about $32 a week for a policy that maxes out at $10,000" ). .
That's exactly the kind of junk that HCR needed to address, and did. Very large, highly profitable companies that offer that mess to low wage hourly employees and call it "medical insurance." What a joke. These people should technically be counted as uninsured and on the public dole because $2,000 won't cover a hospital visit, to say the least, it won't even cover a lot of out patient procedures.
So companies like McDonalds have for years relied on taxpayers to subsidize their workers' healthcare while making billions in profits on their labor. It's about paying a fair share.
So how does the new law make McDonald's offer better insurance? What you have done is make little people lose what meager insurance they do have with no plans to pick them up. All this shows that collectivism needs force to make it work.
It's ok, we know you don't comprehend the issues being discussed here.