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Fast-food companies cut workers’ hours, blame Obamacare because it’s an easy scapegoat (VIDEO)

current:

Fast food chains like Wendy’s are cutting worker’s hours, citing the burden of insuring them under the ACA. But the Affordable Care Act provision about insuring full-time workers doesn’t even start until 2014. There’s only one reason a company that made $12 billion in profits last year (that’d be Wendy’s) would cut hours for employees: greed. It’s nothing new, and it has nothing to do with Obamacare.

“It’s total baloney,” says Current correspondent Jack Schechner. Watch the full video @ link.

If your boss is cutting your hours and saying it’s because OBAMA!!11, they’re full of shit. Seriously. Nothing to do with insuring you under the ACA. Doesn’t even start for another year. Full. of. Shit.

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"This may level the playing field for us, If they have to pay for benefits, and that pushes their prices up closer to ours, it will justify what we’ve been paying for and what we’ve been fighting to do the past few years….I’d tell Papa John’s’ CEO, ‘Welcome to the club, We’ve battled the whole way giving health insurance to employees ever since we could afford to do it 9 years ago, as a two-year-old business."

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Papa John’s Obamacare Price Hike Cheered By Ian’s Pizza In Wisconsin

Like many of the 60 percent of small businesses that pay employees health benefits, Ian’s Pizza has struggled to compete with national chains that enter local markets and undercut existing prices. But Obamacare may give local businesses some breathing room as national chains lose the advantage they once wielded through not providing health insurance

(via faithprovesnothing)

More people get insurance AND small businesses get a better shot at succeeding? Oh my god, Obamacare gets more awesome every day.

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"How many times have you heard someone discuss the need to maintain health insurance for themselves or their family as a factor in an important personal, job-change, or life choice? If the health-insurance exchanges that Obamacare promises work at all well, a new era of personal freedom beckons."

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Steve Coll on Obamacare and the future of work: http://nyr.kr/NZDCB0 (via newyorker)

THIS!

A lot of people won’t be forced to stay in a shit job just so their kids can see a doctor.

(via nanner)

^^

(via stfuconservatives)

(Source: newyorker.com, via stfuconservatives)

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According to the CBO the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit by $124 billion over 10 years. Repealing it would add $210 billion.

joegressivism:

Just the facts, repealing the ACA would add to the deficit. Anything else is just conjecture and lies.

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Nation’s Largest Health Insurer Will Preserve Key Obamacare Provisions, Regardless Of Supreme Court Ruling

stfuconservatives:

Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides this month as to the Constitutionality of Obamacare, UnitedHealthcare will retain the policy of allowing kids to stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26.

In an official statement, their president and chief executive said: “The protections we are voluntarily extending are good for people’s health, promote broader access to quality care and contribute to helping control rising health care costs.”

Whaaat? Obamacare is good for private insurers AND for patients? Wow, it’s almost like it’s a good thing for our country. Shocker.