Obama Suing Companies for Implementing ObamaCare

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Polls show everyone hates ObamaCare, but apparently even Obama hates ObamaCare. Now his administration is suing companies for complying with a provision of ObamaCare.

Either that’s one hell of a post-election pivot or he must be one of those right-wing Republicans.

Reuters reports that Obama’s Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has filed lawsuits against Honeywell International and two other companies because for some strange reason participating in ObamaCare is a violation of federal law.

The ACA encourages companies to institute wellness programs designed to preemptively cut down on health care costs by creating healthier employees. These programs include smoking cessation, weight loss, and regular check-ups. Employees are encouraged to participate in these programs by an up to 50% reduction in out-of-pocket health care costs.

The problem is, wellness programs are in direct violation of the American’s With Disabilities Act, which prohibits medical screening as part of employment. ObamaCare mandates that employees must undergo medical testing to be eligible for reduced premiums, yet federal law says this is illegal.

The corporations that supported ObamaCare are now angry and confused that they are being used by Obama for implementing ObamaCare.

Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration’s challenge to certain “workplace wellness” programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the matter.

Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform despite concerns over several of its elements, largely because it included provisions encouraging the wellness programs.

“The fact that the EEOC sued is shocking to our members,” said Maria Ghazal, vice-president and counsel at the Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives of more than 200 large U.S. corporations. “They don’t understand why a plan in compliance with the ACA (Affordable Care Act) is the target of a lawsuit,” she said. “This is a major issue to our members.”

The reason why is because Obama hates you and ObamaCare was written by a guy who spends all his time calling Americans idiots.

How did you guys really think a massive government medical program implemented by Mr. You Didn’t Build That was going to work?

  • birddog

    People equate wealth with intelligence but these CEOs are stupid as rocks when it comes to dealing with Obamy.

    • pupsncats

      Big business in bed with big government doesn’t always work out well for the corporation does it?

    • NJK

      I agree with you. I’m amazed at how these CEO’s grovel in front of Congress. They are completely ignorant of their rights. The crime syndicate in D.C. says jump, and instead of saying what Howard Hughes did, they say, how high?

      http://youtu.be/G7vu1dlow5A

      They may have the intelligence to run their companies, but they lack it in other areas. Ugh.

      If they went along with this debacle, they deserve it. Elect Ted Cruz next, he said, no bail outs for the insurance companies. They danced with the devil, they deserve to get burned.

  • Libslayer

    I’m sure obamacare will become wildly popular the day it starts “bending the cost curve down”.
    Any day now, any day….

  • pupsncats

    Surprise! Did you not hear Pelosi say the bill had to pass before we knew what was in it? Did you big chief executives of the Business Roundtable not consult your myriad of attorneys so they might explain this to you?

  • VHG1

    Gitmo is where Obama belongs!

    • NJK

      The gallows is where he belongs.

  • Elizabeth capecod

    It is a crazy thing to punish the already healthy. Obama and company didn’t understand this. go figure….
    Reward the healthy by giving everyone a 50% reduction in out-of-pocket health care costs and call it a day.

  • johninohio1

    Oh, don’t get your dander up. All that’s needed is a tweaking of the ACA and/or the ADA. Then Obama and corporate America will be back on track for the enslavement of working Americans.

  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    And here the amoral “pragmatism” of the typical businessman has come back to bite him. In going along with Obamacare, they made a deal with the Devil, and implicitly acknowledged that government had a right to control their businesses and require them to provide health insurance prescribed by bureaucrats – and now they’re surprised when hit with other arbitrary bureaucratic edicts. When you dine with the tiger, the tiger dines last – businessmen need to learn that lesson.