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A little off topic, but this is the first time I've heard of this particular set of grievances with the ACA (that it's "job destroying"). If anything I would h
by brandur 10y ago
A little off topic, but this is the first time I've heard of this particular set of grievances with the ACA (that it's "job destroying").
If anything I would have thought that it left too many jobs in place by fully institutionalizing the role of the very expensive middle man insurance companies, and thus ensuring that it'll always be fundamentally more costly than a more pure universal healthcare system.
- triangleman 10y agoThe ACA mandated that anyone employing someone more than 30 hours per week must provide them with health insurance (small businesses excepted). This led to businesses cutting hours and eliminating jobs.
- jonstewart 10y agoTriangleman, triangleman, please support your posts with data, if you can.
- triangleman 10y agoI found this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/yes-some-companies-are-cutting-hours-in-response-to-obamacare/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/yes-some-companies-are-... At the very least, the ACA does mandate what I said it does. I am not saying it necessarily leads to job losses, nor am I saying that the costs outweigh the benefits.
- jnwatson 10y agoRight, but in this case his wife does "legal piecework". This work is by definition easier to distribute among many people. If a provider was accustomed to distributing 120 hours of work to 3 people, it should be nearly as easy to distribute the same work to 4 people, staying under the 30 hours. I don't understand the connection between legal piecework and ACA.
- jlgaddis 10y agoTo expand slightly on what triangleman said, many employees who were working 40 hour/week jobs suddenly found themselves only working 29 hours/week. This allowed the company to not provide them insurance while, at the same time, reducing their income by ~25%.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoI feel sorry for them, but the employment opportunities for lawyers and people in that industry has been decreasing for a long time. That's just silly. The millions of people who now have health insurance are also a very important improvement in society.
- oculusthrift 10y agothe guy who wrote this is a libertarian and gun nut. many times people bend reality to fit their political views. one cannot be sure what the reason for his wife being laid off is but its convenient for him if its obamacare.