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"The regulation involving grandfathered plans, which applied to the employer market and the individual market, indicated that if a plan was in effect in March of 2010, stayed in effect without unduly burdening the consumer with reducing benefits and adding on huge costs, that plan would stay in effect and never have to comply with any regulations of the Affordable Care Act".
Grandfathered work practices allow cabin crew to spend two nights at a destination if the itinerary has been disrupted, which plays havoc when planes are redirected because of bad weather.
Environmentalists are particularly critical of the fact that nearly half of Texas's industrial plants currently operate under "grandfathered " emissions rules less stringent standards which pre-date the state's Clean Air Act.This is not the first time a governor of Texas has sympathised with businessmen about regulations.
"The reactionaries in the faculties will eventually be grandfathered out," says Tyler Cowen, co-founder of the Marginal Revolution University, which has pioneered free online learning in economics and other subjects.
America still gets more than half of its electricity from coal, but only because many older plants have been "grandfathered ", and so do not have to meet strict new emissions standards a derogation that is almost certain to be struck down at some point.
Independent of the new law, companies were anyway going to abandon many of those grandfathered plans to take up less generous ones.
Another is that the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin Energy consortia negotiated their production-sharing agreements with the Russian government before the whole area of production-sharing legislation became snarled up in the Duma, Russia's parliament: these two Sakhalin deals are thus "grandfathered ", as Americans would say, and less susceptible to the Duma's wiles.
But policies issued before 2014 may still be grandfathered in.
Sears, for instance, recently announced that it would no longer subsidise health insurance for retirees (though existing retirees have their subsidies grandfathered).
Michael Grade, a TV bigwig who sat on Mr Milburn's panel, said it was common for people to be "grandfathered " into jobs by relatives.That is not new, nor unique to the media.
Since 2013 Obamacare has required private insurers to cover all FDA-approved contraceptives, with exemptions for old policies that have been grandfathered into the new system.The main obstacle is not cost but knowledge.
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The primary grammatical function of "grandfathered" is as a verb , specifically the past participle of the verb "grandfather". It's often used as an adjective to describe something that is exempt from new rules due to pre-existing conditions.
Expression frequency: Very common
