re: #40 lawhawk

Obamacare doesn’t affect businesses with under 50 employees. Only those businesses with 50+ employees are required to provide insurance or via the exchanges.

So if you see someone claiming that they’ve got 5 or 10 employees but had to turn them into part timers because of Obamacare, call BS. Because it is.

These are either lying bastards who are simply making it up, or are using Obamacare as an excuse for their own bad business decisions to screw their employees and want to take advantage of an information gap.

The key thing I noted in one flow chart that explained what the criteria were for the employer mandate was that one important one was having employees who qualified for subsidies to buy insurance. To me, that makes a lot of sense, since these employers are essentially using the rest of us to cover for their underpaying their employees.

Of course, that won’t fly with the ‘Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?’ ‘Welfare pays more than minimum wage, so let’s cut welfare’ folks.