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RUSH: Have you heard about the latest outrage involving Obamacare? CVS, the pharmacy giant, has told its employees in the San Francisco, the Bay Area — and actually around the country, all over the place — every employee at CVS will have to reveal their weight and other health information or pay extra for health coverage.<\/p>\n

“The company announced Wednesday what it called ‘A Plan for Health,\u2019 that features a mix of rewards and penalties for employees. Among the measures, employees must report their weight, body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Workers must also be tobacco free or enroll in an addiction program by next year.”<\/p>\n

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All of this because of Obamacare. Now, I tell you what\u2019s gonna happen here. Remember we had the quote, Bernie Marcus, one of the cofounders of Home Depot <\/a>said he was talking to some fellow friends of his that run businesses. The payroll tax holiday ended on January 1st, so the first paychecks of the year for everybody, their take-home pay went down as the payroll tax was restored. And Bernie Marcus said that a bunch of his friends that run businesses told him that their employees were blaming the employer for this, when it was in fact an Obama tax increase. But the employees were getting mad at their managers and their owners for their paychecks getting smaller. They had no idea what the payroll tax even was. They thought it was something that was assessed by the business. <\/p>\n

So what do you think CVS employees are gonna do? Do you think they\u2019re gonna blame Obamacare, or will they blame CVS? CVS can be honest, “No, no, we\u2019re doing this because of Obamacare requirements.” <\/p>\n

“No, you\u2019re not. You just don\u2019t like Obama. You businesspeople, you treat employees like crap anyway, and you\u2019re making us do this just because you\u2019re the boss.” Don\u2019t be surprised, folks, if, as Obamacare items are implemented, and they cause things like this, that the businesses, they\u2019re the end users, they\u2019re the ones implementing this. The directive didn\u2019t come from Washington. It was CVS who told their employees what they\u2019re gonna have to do. They\u2019re gonna get the blame. <\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t calculate this, did you? When all these Obamacare rules get implemented, we all thought, “Yeah, when that happens there\u2019s gonna be hell to pay. People are gonna get mad at Obama, the Democrats.” Maybe not, at first. They may end up blaming their bosses. Because it\u2019s not Obama making \u2019em go get a checkup or enroll in an addiction program because they smoke. It\u2019s not Obama, as far as they\u2019re concerned, it\u2019s not Obama making them measure their body fat. It\u2019s management at CVS. And CVS, they\u2019re not gonna know how to deal with it. These management people don\u2019t know how to deal with this kind of stuff. They\u2019re not gonna know how to market to their own employees. <\/p>\n

“No, we\u2019re only doing this because this is the federal law.” And even if they do that, these low-information employees at CVS are probably gonna say, “No, Obama said he\u2019s not going to do this. Obama said our premiums were gonna go down. Obama said that we\u2019re gonna keep our doctor. Obama said that none of this was gonna happen. So it must be you guys doing it.” Don\u2019t doubt me on this. I can see the tea leaves. We\u2019ve already had a couple of examples of this, the Bernie Marcus story being one of them. And of course here\u2019s the headline at the CBS website: “CVS Ordering Workers To Reveal Weight, Health Info.”<\/p>\n

You have to read pretty far down the story to find out they\u2019re only complying with Obamacare. You have to read further into this story than your average low-information reader is going to go. So this may not be the event that everybody thought it might be. It depends. It depends on how management at these companies deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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