Imagine that you bring coffee to your office every day for yourself and your cubicle-mate.
It’s a small gesture, but your cubicle-mate appreciates it, and they bring you donuts every day as a payback.
You’ve got a good system going.
But the other people in the office take notice.
They want coffee too. And donuts.
So they take a vote, and demand that you provide coffee and donuts for the entire office or else you’ll be fired.
You realize you can’t afford to do this for the whole office. You had a good system, and now you’ve added so many new orders onto the list. Just carrying them in the door will be a hassle.
So the two of you provide coffee and donuts for the whole office. But instead of a large Starbucks (insert name of Starbucks name for large size coffee here), you bring them a half-shot of coffee. And instead of a nice medley of donuts, with maple bars, bear claws, and Devil’s food cake, you bring them a single donut hole.
Everyone has coffee and donuts now, and everyone is finally equal. And everyone is unhappy, and nobody got even half of what they had hoped.
That’s simple math: the more you spread things around, the less everyone gets.
We were told with ObamaCare that we could keep our existing premiums and coverage, that the prices would not go up, but people with pre-existing conditions and the uninsured would be completely covered too.
How many people? Over 20 million people.
Who is going to pay for it? When we asked that question, they yelled at us and ran out of the room
And now it begins:
Universal Orlando, a theme park resort in Florida that generates more than $1 billion dollars in annual revenue, plans to drop insurance coverage for its part-time employees at the end of this year — a tactic to avoid providing its workers with adequate health benefits under Obamacare.
Well, it’s not some nefarious tactic, Tara Culp-Ressler…it’s simple math. When coverage becomes too expensive due to government mandate, then the company can’t afford coverage. It’s a tax. Just ask the Supreme Court.
But it’s not just a matter of being unable to afford it.
Those types of insurance plans — sometimes referred to as “mini-med” plans — will no longer be permitted under the federal Affordable Care Act. Beginning in 2014, the law will prohibit insurance plans that impose annual monetary limits on essential medical care such, as hospitalization, or on overall spending.
The plans they currently offer are now illegal. That’s why they can’t offer more coverage.
The fact that they generate $1 billion in revenue is not relevant here. The fact is that government has come in, rendered the amount of insurance they already provide as illegal, and demanded they provide more.
Our theme parks are not insurance agencies. Insurance is a perk they provide part-time employees, something few businesses do because it’s wildly expensive.
And now, thanks to government intervention, they can’t even provide insurance anymore.
And everyone is finally equal.
