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The beginning of the end of mini-med and limited-benefit plans
McDonald's looking for a waiver or else it might have to drop its health plan for almost 30,000 hourly worker. Ultimately up to 1.4 million Americans could be affected by something the Wall Street Journal is referring to as "the U.S. health overhaul.'
We're not familiar with this overhaul nor why it may impel companies and colleges to alter or drop health insurance coverage.
Does anyone know what the WSJ is talking about?
Congress should look into this. It's never good when Federal legislation has such profoundly negative effects on people's lives.
Peggy Noonan: ‘You Are Terrifying Us’
Says Peggy:
All of this is unnecessarily and unhelpfully divisive and provocative. They are mocking and menacing concerned citizens. This only makes a hot situation hotter. Is this what the president wants? It couldn’t be. But then in an odd way he sometimes seems not to have fully absorbed the awesome stature of his office. You really, if you’re president, can’t call an individual American stupid, if for no other reason than that you’re too big. You cannot allow your allies to call people protesting a health-care plan “extremists” and “right wing,” or bought, or Nazi-like, either. They’re citizens. They’re concerned. They deserve respect.
Latest Gallup poll results on healthcare
Gallup finds that:
Most Americans do not believe that the U.S. healthcare system is in a state of crisis. The economy outweighs healthcare as the most pressing problem facing the country and in Americans' personal lives.... Two keys for the average American appear to be cost and urgency. The data suggest a continuing need to convince Americans of the return on investment of any proposed major investment in healthcare reform. Americans also appear dubious about the benefits of what they perceive to be less-than-fully-informed representatives in Washington rushing into a new healthcare reform law when the need for such legislation is not the highest on the public's agenda.
Other important points include the fact that Americans don't trust Congress and fully 2/3 don't think Congress doesn't have a good understanding of the issues related to healthcare reform.
This will probably be powerful ammo for the anti-healthcare reform advocates all weekend and beyond.
