Obamacare avoidance is not just private industry: States Cutting Employee Hours to Avoid Obamacare Costs
The costs of Obamacare are not just hitting businesses this year–they are also hitting the government, and public employees as well. Virginia, for example, is about to limit part-time employees to 29 hours per week in order to avoid triggering Obamacare’s requirement that employers provide health insurance to those working 30 hours per week or more. The state cannot afford the $110 million annual cost of insurance.
Don’t forget educational institutions, both public and private, as well as restaurants and the hotel industry all taking the same action.
The article concludes with this commentary in regards to Obamacare:
Rather than dealing with the problem of uninsured part-time workers separately, the legislation overhauls the nation’s entire health insurance system–a system in which 85 percent of Americans were covered, and 80-90 percent were happy with their insurance. The economic cost is certain; the political cost somewhat less so–but neither is positive.
One really has to wonder why. The answer is fairly obvious, at least from the progressive point of view:
- It’s a giant step towards a single payor system, in fact probably as big a leap that could be made at the time.
- It’s in essence a cost shifting tax on the rich
Not to mention the bill has done absolutely nothing to control health care costs. I”m “looking forward” to the impending shortage of primary care physicians.
