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The ACA mandated that anyone employing someone more than 30 hours per week must provide them with health insurance (small businesses excepted). This led to busi
by triangleman 10y ago
The 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.