What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Busybody]

ObamaCare causing Walgreens to change healthcare plans...wait, aren't they the same Walgreens promoting this law?! http://obamacosts.gop.com/?p=675

 

[Busybody]

NIGGER tells us

We are ALL wrong

HE is right

FUCK YOU, NIGGER


Video: Walgreens to dump employee coverage for 160,000




Remember “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan”? For 160,000 employees of Walgreens, that’s now old and busted. The new hotness will be receiving a flat-rate bonus to spend in private exchanges in order to get out from under the costs of health insurance as ObamaCare rolls out:


Walgreen Co. (WAG), the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, will move its workers into a private health insurance exchange to buy company-subsidized coverage, the latest sign of how the debate over Obamacare is accelerating a historic shift in corporate health-care coverage.

Walgreen’s decision affects about 160,000 current employees and follows similar action this year by Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) and Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI) As an alternative to administering a traditional health plan, all three will send their employees to an exchange run byAon Plc. (AON) Fourteen more companies will join in 2014 when 600,000 people will participate, Aon said.

The insurance options offered by the private exchange are similar to those in the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges, though workers will get their subsidies from their companies instead of the government, said Ken Sperling of Aon. While the private effort isn’t directly linked to Obamacare, the debate over the law has spurred a new look at cost-cutting by businesses, municipalities and consumers.

The problem for employees, though, is that a flat subsidy for spending in private exchanges just transfers the burden of rising costs from the employer to the employee. If employers like Walgreens expected ObamaCare to actually control costs, they wouldn’t be dumping employee coverage. CBS This Morning’s Jill Schlesinger calls this “a big deal,” and points out that this gets Walgreens and other corporate employers off the hook for compliance costs:



“I can’t see how this is going to be good for the employee in the future,” Schlesinger adds, given the CBO projection yesterday of health-care cost escalation over the next twenty years.

By the way, this move comes just two months after Walgreens agreed to partner with HHS on promoting ObamaCare — which was supposed to drive that cost curve downward:


The nation’s largest drugstore chain is partnering with Blue Cross Blue Shield to promote ObamaCare before the new insurance exchanges open on Oct. 1.

Walgreens and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) launched a website Wednesday and promised to distribute brochures about ObamaCare at Walgreens stores around the country.

This must be part of that “great for thee, bad for we” promotion technique, huh?

 

[Busybody]

News reports wonder why no new antibiotics out as companies cut R&D departments to prepare for Obamacare hikes.

 

[Busybody]

So we passed the Bill before we read it and now that we've read it... .we hate it.... and now its too late... see how that works?

 

[koalabear]

I think some guy named BusyBody warned the sheep but they didn't listen.

 

[Busybody]

BUSYBODY fucking RACIST

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think some guy named BusyBody warned the sheep but they didn't listen.

So we passed the Bill before we read it and now that we've read it... .we hate it.... and now its too late... see how that works?

Listened, read through everything he wrote and disagreed. We don't hate it, we just aren't completely in love with it and once again we didn't pass it without reading it. Congress read it, we here on Lit read it thoroughly enough that we were quoting specific pages and paragraphs and the old laws they effected. This we didn't read it bullshit is just that bullshit.

 

[Busybody]

Listened, read through everything he wrote and disagreed. We don't hate it, we just aren't completely in love with it and once again we didn't pass it without reading it. Congress read it, we here on Lit read it thoroughly enough that we were quoting specific pages and paragraphs and the old laws they effected. This we didn't read it bullshit is just that bullshit.

KNEE GROW

Its like you are not even TRYING

 

[Busybody]

KC Star: ObamaCare’s So Awesome, Tons of People Are Going to Be Retiring Early!


MissouriTorch

There’s journalism and there’s editorials.

And then there’s propaganda:


Insurance providers and financial planners expect the Affordable Care Act to encourage a flood of workplace departures from the 50-to-65 age group, which accounts for about 43 million members of the U.S. labor force.

That’s because those not yet eligible for Medicare “won’t be hostage to your employer or your spouse’s employer anymore,” said David Power, a broker with PowerGroup in Overland Park. “The health care shackles are off.”

 

[koalabear]

Listened, read through everything he wrote and disagreed. We don't hate it, we just aren't completely in love with it and once again we didn't pass it without reading it. Congress read it, we here on Lit read it thoroughly enough that we were quoting specific pages and paragraphs and the old laws they effected. This we didn't read it bullshit is just that bullshit.

Apparently has multiple mice in his pockets.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Apparently has multiple mice in his pockets.

There were enough GB'ers that read it that even with out Mickey and Minnie I could still use we and be accurate.

 

[Busybody]

There were enough GB'ers that read it that even with out Mickey and Minnie I could still use we and be accurate.

STOP

I cant stand the HUMOR

 

[Busybody]

so LIT loons read it

and Congress didn't

AWESOME

 

[Sean Renaud]

Congress read it. I know you've latched on to that stupid quote of "we have to pass this to see what's in it" well that's always true. Just most politicians are far too smart to say that outloud.

You didn't hear Bush saying "we have to Invade Iraq to see what weapons they have." But it's true. You didn't hear him say "We won't know when we'll be out of Afghanistan until we're out." It's the same thing just she admited it. It was stupid of her but it was stupid of her because it assumed the average American was smart enough to be dealt with like adults and not children.

 

[unregistered]

 

[richard_daily]

Yes, there are many facets to his mountain of bullshit.

You take baths in bullshit every day.

At least you've got your boyfriend there to keep you company, and enjoy the smell with you.

 

[koalabear]

You take baths in bullshit every day.

At least you've got your boyfriend there to keep you company, and enjoy the smell with you.

Still miss ken and paul don't you lil fag chihuahua.

 

[richard_daily]

Still miss ken and paul don't you lil fag chihuahua.

why are you calling your boyfriend a lil fag chihuahua?

 

[koalabear]

why are you calling your boyfriend a lil fag chihuahua?

Deflection never has worked for you, you might want to try something else.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I miss Paul, he was one of the sanest people around here.

 

[unregistered]

 

[unregistered]

 

[Busybody]

Congress read it. I know you've latched on to that stupid quote of "we have to pass this to see what's in it" well that's always true. Just most politicians are far too smart to say that outloud.

You didn't hear Bush saying "we have to Invade Iraq to see what weapons they have." But it's true. You didn't hear him say "We won't know when we'll be out of Afghanistan until we're out." It's the same thing just she admited it. It was stupid of her but it was stupid of her because it assumed the average American was smart enough to be dealt with like adults and not children.

you aren't even TRYING, Mr Grow

 

[Disgustipated]

LadyF laid waste to his shakey credibility when she exposed the amazing truth, that behind the Lil' Chihuahua, lay a bloody trail of plundered male butt holes that would keep even Elton John up at night.

So you're saying you believe her? She would only know if she was watching them, dummy.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'm trying to remember what's wrong with keeping Elton John up at night, or with being gay.