{"id":198,"date":"2010-10-08T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-10-08T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:52:18","slug":"health-care-waivers-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Waivers &#8211; BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcdwaiver.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199\" title=\"mcdwaiver\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcdwaiver.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the sad state of our political country.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A month before elections McDonald&#8217;s and 29 other firms get health care coverage waivers.\u00c2\u00a0 So if you are a big company and you employ a\u00c2\u00a0 ton of people, and you threaten to drop their health coverage because you don&#8217;t want to pay what our great country has mandated you pay for health care, then we will give you a waiver.<\/p>\n<p>I am disgusted on two fronts:<\/p>\n<p>1)that our country, in 2014 will mandate that every person have healthcare coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no where in our Constitution that allows the federal government force you to buy something.<\/p>\n<p>2)that our government allows big corporations to rule this country.\u00c2\u00a0 Laws should apply to the big and small companies, no matter how many people you employ.\u00c2\u00a0 Why should Mcdonald&#8217;s get a break, but the company that is not big enough to threaten the coverage drop to 30k employees gets nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I am all for health care coverage for all, but to throw this law out there without addressing any of the costs that are driving health care higher is just pathetic.\u00c2\u00a0 To say this is health care reform is a complete joke.\u00c2\u00a0 It is only going to increase the costs for every person who pays for their health care.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.tractionnews.com\/?p=35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sad state of our political country.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A month before elections McDonald&#8217;s and 29 other firms get health care coverage waivers.\u00c2\u00a0 So if you are a big company and you employ a\u00c2\u00a0 ton of people, and you threaten to drop their health coverage because you don&#8217;t want to pay what our great country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[106,57,107,105],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-coverage","tag-health-care","tag-obamacare","tag-waiver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}