Democratic Senators thundered that the mini-med insurance plans offered by McDonald’s and other companies is a “bad deal for workers,” so bad it made Sen. Barbara Boxer’s “’ heart beat fast, and not in a good way.’” The worthies dislike that such plans don’t have meet the Obamacare regulation that health insurance plans must spend at least 80 cents of every premium dollar collected on care. Would that such a mandate extended to other areas of government…say to education spending, where far less than 80 cents of every tax dollar actually reaches the classroom.

There has been considerable debate on this topic in Virginia, with both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor supporting efforts to raise Virginia’s classroom expenditures to 65 cents of every tax dollar from the current 61 cents.