Healthcare Reform Nightmares: The McDonald’s Story
There was a report recently in the Wall Street Journal (Click here to read) that McDonald’s may have to drop its health-insurance plan for some 30,000 employees because the plan could not comply with a new requirement in ObamaCare. McDonald’s, like many restaurant chains and retail businesses, offer…
2010 Kaiser Foundation Study on Premiums
The Kaiser Family Foundation (Kaiser) and the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) conduct an annual national survey of nonfederal private and public employers with three or more workers. This is the twelfth Kaiser/HRET survey and reflects health benefit information for 2010.
Employer-sponsored insurance is the…
Number of Uninsured Rise in 2009
The number of people without health insurance rose by 4.4 million between 2008 and 2009 (from 46.3 million to 50.7 million), according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, the number of people in poverty in 2009 was the largest number in the 51…
Berwick’s Views on Display
Barack Obama’s arrogant “recess appointment” of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is chilling. He fits with Obama’s goal to fundamentally change the US. And this fundamental change is not good. Below are some of Berwick’s quotes which …