Every day we hear new reports of challenges surrounding the implementation of the president's health care law. More workers and businesses are coming forward to express frustration with the law.
Under the law's employer mandate, businesses are forced to provide government-approved health insurance or pay a penalty. The president's recent decision to delay the mandate for a year only underscores what many citizens, businesses, and members of Congress have been saying for a long time: The law is a train wreck.
Don't just take our word, though. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently received a letter about the law's devastating consequences for workers.
The letter states, "When you and the president sought our support for the Affordable Care Act, you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, this promise is under threat.
"Right now, unless you and the Obama Administration enact an equitable fix, the ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40-hour workweek that is the backbone of the American middle class."
What's most surprising about this letter is not its content, but its source. This letter was written by the three of the nation's largest labor unions, the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and UNITE HERE.
And other unions have expressed similar disapproval of the law; earlier this year, the United Union of Roofers, Water-proofers and Allied Workers also called for "repeal or complete reform."
There is a reason the same organizations that pushed for this law are now hoping for change: Obamacare is far too complex. Businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will have to comply with the employer mandate. Businesses with part-time workers will have to calculate whether they meet the threshold of having 50 "full time equivalents" based on the law's interpretation of "full time," which is 30 hours per week.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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3 comments:
Maybe that's the underlying plan...A 20-29 hour work week for all? We can be like Europe, only with hours like that we'de be in a leadership roll, we'de make Greece and France jealous
Or who knows, perhaps the 'underlying plan' may be something like a massive and developed country having an easier access to health care for it's inhabitants. Scary isn't it?
RM,
"perhaps the 'underlying plan' may be something like a massive and developed country having an easier access to health care for it's inhabitants."
hahaha...at what cost, POVERTY FOR ALL?
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