Just days after McDonald’s suggested the new health care laws would force it to end coverage for hourly employees, the Obama administration has issued an exemption to the golden arches and dozens of other firms that were poised to eliminate health coverage over prohibitive costs. Why were the exemptions granted? What happens to small business owners who don’t have enough clout to earn a federal exemption? And how significant is a federal judge’s decision upholding the Constitutionality of the individual mandate? We ask Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute and find out why she likens the stream of revelations about the new plan to an ‘army of centipedes’.
