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#Obamacare: Party of the working man to shaft hourly workers

Posted by: Phineas on June 17, 2013 at 4:49 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas This is what happens when Washington tries to dictate “one size fits all” regulations for a very complex national market, such as health care. As Jillian Kay Melchior explains in National Review, the authors of Obamacare faced a conundrum: they wanted firms with 50 or more employees working 30 or more hours [...]

 

To deal with #Obamacare, school district cuts employee hours

Posted by: Phineas on May 31, 2013 at 3:59 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas A little Blue on Blue action for your Friday, as one liberal constituency, school district employees, feels the pain to satisfy the demands of another, the “free healthcare and unicorns for everyone” crowd. Elections. They have consequences: 1 [sic] of Indiana’s largest school districts is cutting the hours of 610 part-time teaching [...]

 

The Obamacare Chronicles: 129 laid off from Missouri hospital due to wonderful new health bill

Posted by: Phineas on May 15, 2013 at 1:01 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas At this point, there’s not much we can do about it, folks. Losing a Supreme Court decision and the 2012 election guarantees that Obamacare will go into full effect on January 1st, 2014 – Happy New Year! All we can do for now is observe and take note of the pain (some of [...]

 

So, one of the schmucks who designed Obamacare warns it’s “too complex.”

Posted by: Phineas on April 9, 2013 at 3:56 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Now that he’s retiring and doesn’t have to face the wrath of voters, Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) feels free to speak his mind: West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that [...]

 

Another employer drops health insurance thanks to Obamacare

Posted by: Phineas on February 21, 2013 at 3:49 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas And do I blame them? No. They’re being economically rational. Democrats created this mess, let them take the credit: Universal Orlando plans to stop offering medical insurance to part-time employees beginning next year, a move the resort says has been forced by the federal government’s health-care overhaul. The giant theme-park resort, which [...]

 

Obamacare guts the pay of yet more of its strongest supporters

Posted by: Phineas on January 22, 2013 at 2:36 pm » 10 Comments

**Posted by Phineas We’ve seen this before: state and community colleges cutting the hours of its part-time faculty to avoid the increased financial burdens of Obamacare. Well, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, here we go again: In Ohio, instructor Robert Balla faces a new cap on the number of hours he can teach at Stark State [...]

 

Hospital stops infant deliveries, citing Obamacare

Posted by: Phineas on January 16, 2013 at 3:18 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Wait, wasn’t the PPACA supposed to lower medical costs? Why yes, yes it was: Congress and the President have enacted a historic health care reform law that will help ensure that all families are able to get the care they need, as well as financial security and relief from rising premiums. The [...]

 

Obamacare: the regulations avalanche begins

Posted by: Phineas on December 5, 2012 at 3:51 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas People are going to hate this, but, hey, it’s what they voted for: It took the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 159 pages to explain one new Obamacare tax on investments that will be used to pay for Obamacare. Only individuals and families making more than $200,000 and $250,000, respectively, will be impacted [...]

 

PA college to cut hours to avoid Obamacare

Posted by: Phineas on November 28, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Don’t say we didn’t warn you: Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors, support staff, and part-time instructors to dodge paying for Obamacare. “It’s kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement [under the new law] to get [...]

 

Restaurant to charge surcharge to pay for Obamacare

Posted by: Phineas on November 15, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas It’s the iron logic of economics, really: either you recoup your costs and make a sufficient profit to justify staying in business, or you go out of business. In this case, not only is the owner of several Denny’s restaurants cutting employee hours to balance the cost, he’s also adding an explicit [...]