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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 773257" data-attributes="member: 25159">They never said they WOULD drop health care....&nbsp;McDonald&#039;s, in a memo to federal officials, said &quot;it would be economically prohibitive for our carrier to continue offering&quot; the mini-med plan unless it got an exemption from the requirement to spend 80% to 85% of premiums on benefits. Officials said McDonald&#039;s would probably have to hit the 85% figure, which applies to larger group plans. Its insurer, BCS Insurance Group of Oak Brook Terrace, Ill., declined to comment.&nbsp;&quot;Having to drop our current mini-med offering would represent a huge disruption to our 29,500 participants,&quot; said McDonald&#039;s memo, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. &quot;It would deny our people this current benefit that positively impacts their lives and protects their health—and would leave many without an affordable, comparably designed alternative until 2014.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 773257, member: 25159"] [COLOR=blue]They never said they WOULD drop health care....[/COLOR] [I][B][COLOR=red]McDonald's, in a memo to federal officials[/COLOR], said "it would be economically prohibitive for our carrier to continue offering" the mini-med plan unless it got an exemption from the requirement to spend 80% to 85% of premiums on benefits. Officials said McDonald's would probably have to hit the 85% figure, which applies to larger group plans. Its insurer, BCS Insurance Group of Oak Brook Terrace, Ill., declined to comment.[/B][/I] [B][/B] [B][I][COLOR=red]"Having to drop our current mini-med offering would represent a huge disruption to our 29,500 participants," said McDonald's memo,[/COLOR] which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "It would deny our people this current benefit that positively impacts their lives and protects their health—and would leave many without an affordable, comparably designed alternative until 2014." [/I][/B] [/QUOTE]

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