A memo acquired by The Wall Street Journal today revealed that McDonald’s would have to drop the limited health insurance it offers to 30,000 employees because of the rules of Obamacare.

While many restaurants don't offer health coverage, McDonald's provides mini-med plans for workers at 10,500 U.S. locations, most of them franchised. A single worker can pay $14 a week for a plan that caps annual benefits at $2,000, or about $32 a week to get coverage up to $10,000 a year.

Last week, a senior McDonald's official informed the Department of Health and Human Services that the restaurant chain's insurer won't meet a 2011 requirement to spend at least 80% to 85% of its premium revenue on medical care.

McDonald's and trade groups say the percentage, called a medical loss ratio, is unrealistic for mini-med plans because of high administrative costs owing to frequent worker turnover, combined with relatively low spending on claims.

Democrats who drafted the health law wanted the requirement to prevent insurers from spending too much on executive salaries, marketing and other costs that they said don't directly help patients.

The Department of Health and Human Services types have indicated that they’d likely give McDonald’s a waiver – once they get around to writing the regulations McDonalds will need a waiver from.

It’s this sort of thing that illuminates two different statements made by major proponents of the bill.

First, when Nancy Pelosi said that they had to pass the bill to find out what was in it – well, she suggested that was a good thing. Anytime a politician says anything like that you should never pass it, because it’s obvious that the aforementioned politician doesn’t know what’s in it either.

Second, Obama’s promise that you could keep the insurance you had was an empty one.