100 Unintended Consequences of Obamacare

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  1. EyesWideOpen

    EyesWideOpen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Here's a link, with just 100 cases where hundreds, and sometimes thousands of people's lives are adversely affected by this law. Funny how popular forcing employees to a 28 hour work week has become, eh?

    100 Unintended Consequences of Obamacare | National Review Online

    Today, Obamacare’s October 1 launch date finally arrived. Ever since its passage, supporters of the law have made countless attempts to convince the American people of its viability, dismissing predictions of lost jobs, decreased hours, and rising costs, among others.

    Yet from major corporations to local mom-and-pop shops, from entire states to tiny school districts, a wide range of companies and institutions have seen Obamacare’s negative impact on their workers, budgets, and production. Here are 100 examples of how Obamacare is falling short of what was promised.

    One of the examples:

    3. UPS
    Fifteen thousand employees’ spouses will no longer be able to use UPS’s health-care plan because they have access to coverage elsewhere. The “costs associated with the Affordable Care Act have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an affordable cost,” the delivery giant said in a company memo. The move is expected to save the company $60 million next year.
     
  2. Johnny-C

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    Oh, I surely hope Congress get to read that list and FIX it over time.

    But one thing is for sure, those issues don't warrant the EXTREME measure of shutting down the functions of U.S. Government.
     
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    The government has been shut down three days and I haven't had it impact my life in the slightest. The traffic lights still work, the mail still comes, firemen are still putting out fires. What exactly do these "non-essential" federal employees do that we can't live without?
     
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    sort of like a sequester redux, where people don't notice all the hype from the 0bama admin's predictions of doom
     

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