Quote:Something should have also been done to protect jobs.  I know a lot of people lost hours.  A friend of mine worked as a waitress, and had her hours cut.  I'm thankful she was able to finally quit that job, because I know she hated it (but needed money to pay for college, rent, food, and everything else).  When her hours were cut, she was really struggling.  And that was with help with tuition from loans she didn't have to pay back (though only $1000/semester)

 

Again, that's a flaw with Obamacare that was not thought out prior to passing this disaster of a bill.  Business owners are not going to absorb the costs associated with complying with Obamacare.  Many were forced to either cut hours or just fold up with the passage of this bill.  Once again, this hurts the lower and middle classes more so than the upper class.

 

What could be done now?  Repeal the employer mandate would be a good start.

 

What people don't understand, especially some of the younger people is that health insurance provided by an employer came about back in WWII.  Employers needed to attract workers, and this was an incentive for people to go work at a certain place.  It has since become what it is today where employers are required to provide a health insurance plan.  Next the imperial federal government is going to mandate that employers provide a retirement plan.

 

Gone are the days where people were responsible for their own well being.  It is "expected" that a health insurance plan and a retirement savings plan be provided by an employer rather than a person take it upon themselves to establish and provide these things for themselves.

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