White Castle System Inc. began offering health coverage when Calvin Coolidge was president. That 88-year history didn't make last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling any more palatable to the seller of hamburger sliders.
In upholding the core of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, justices still left U.S. businesses wondering what they will have to spend to comply, said Jamie Richardson, vice president of Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle.
"Just because something is constitutional to us doesn't necessarily make it a good idea," Richardson said in an interview. "There are so many different rules and regulations that still need to be finalized. It's really difficult to predict what costs are actually going to be."
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