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Ronald McDonald Will Kill You

McDonald’s may drop limited insurance plans for 30,000 employees unless the government exempts the company from a new requirement. McDonald's says they will continue to offer "mini-med" plans, which allow workers to pay $14 a week for insurance coverage that caps at $2,000 a year.

Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO says McDonald's is playing politics with its employees' health. "McDonald's is trying to say we want to leverage the administration to not enforcing the law by threatening to cut off health care to these low-wage workers who pay for it with their own money."

A blogger says McDonald’s “mini-med” plans do not qualify as insurance, noting the $2,000 cap does not cover much beyond routine check-ups. "To call that insurance is to distort the definition, since these policies would do very little to help people with even moderately serious medical conditions."

Another writer offers a solution: "Eliminate the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, which has 93% of our daily recommended fat intake and 94% of our daily recommended sodium intake. The health care savings should be more than enough to cover the tab for any uptick in health insurance costs."

http://www.newsy.com/videos/mcdonald-s-threatens-to-cut-health-care-plans/

Filed under: AFL-CIO Health Healthcare McDonald's
 

American health is not a business goal

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Rachel Maddow points out that health insurance companies do not care about the well-being of Americans and should not be expected to because they are businesses so their goal is making money. Because American health care is a profit-making system, not a health care system, the incentives are wrong to provide Americans with adequate care.

Filed under: Business Capitalism Health care Rachel Maddow USA
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