{"id":7260,"date":"2010-10-04T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2010-10-04T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:45:49","slug":"todays-obamacare-casualty-3m-to-discontinue-healthcare-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7260\/todays-obamacare-casualty-3m-to-discontinue-healthcare-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s ObamaCare Casualty: 3M to Discontinue Healthcare Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the ObamaCare debate, President Obama promised<\/a> that, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan.”\u00a0 Nearly every single day, however, it seems that yet another healthcare plan becomes a casualty of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

Last week, McDonald’s made headlines<\/a> when it revealed that a low-cost “mini-med” healthcare plan for 30,000 employees may now be “economically prohibitive” due to ObamaCare.\u00a0 Now, we receive news<\/a> that 3M will discontinue a group healthcare plan for retirees not old enough to receive Medicare by 2015.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 “Health care reform has made it more difficult for employers like 3M to provide a plan that will remain competitive.”<\/p>\n

The White House continues to wage a Soviet-style campaign<\/a> against private enterprises that dare deliver the inconvenient news that ObamaCare is already destroying the healthcare marketplace, but killing messenger after messenger won’t change simple reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the ObamaCare debate, President Obama promised that, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan.”\u00a0 Nearly every single day, however, it seems that yet another healthcare plan becomes a casualty of ObamaCare. Last week, McDonald’s made headlines when it revealed that a low-cost “mini-med” healthcare plan for 30,000 employees may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,12,465,1900,24,35,61,28],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-free-market","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-mcdonalds","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-spending","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7261,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}