Arbitrary regulations established in the Democrat Parties signature health-care overhaul (more like a brutal mugging) has just clipped big Bird’s wings.
Employees at Sesame Place, the Pennsylvania theme park base on the children’s television show, will be getting their hours reduced because the cost burdens forced on the owner and their insurer, by the Democrats health care mandate, make keeping current hours and coverage impossible.
Ernie, Burt, Big Bird, and everyone else, or at least the people who dress up as these characters, will not just be earning less, they will be dumped into the state insurance exchange, whenever it is that the thing will actually be up and running.
Apparently, the company SeaWorld uses to provide health insurance for its employees, Starbridge Limited Medical, does not comply with the minimum coverage level mandated by the Affordable Care Act, so instead of expanding their coverage to include the new mandates, SeaWorld is going to let its employees “choose their own coverage,” selecting it from the state’s health insurance exchange whenever that’s ready. There is, of course, no guarantee that the insurance will be cheaper, but that’s not SeaWorld’s problem.
Another win for Democrats.
Crappy federally managed single-payer was always the goal. Thanks to ObamaCare Big Bird will be forced to choose from a buffet of plans, probably from one provider, who has already limited the number of access points at which he will be able to use that insurance for actual care.
When Democrats get what they want, more people suffer.
Hey- we should put that on a bumper sticker!
