Friday, December 13, 2013
Obamacare News: Healthcare reform curbs full-time hiring
http://medcitynews.com/2013/12/obamacare-news-healthcare-reform-curbs-full-time-hiring/
According to Duke University,20% of businesses are less likely to hire new employees due to the pushiing costs of "Obamacare." They also state 10% of busninesses may actually lay off current employees due to Obamacare. Since the Affordable Health Care act requires most businesses to supply healthcare to full time workers, and the economy isn't at its best, its hurting smaller businesses alot. Part-time employees are now being hired over full time employees at most local busineses hence the Health Care law from 2010.
In my opinion, I think the government should cut back on affordable health care. It's a huge addition to the enormous debt we already have. Most people play the system and end up having some type of affordable health care even when they're laid off. Pushing new healthcare reforms will not help anything in the current position the economy is in. Small local businesses are essentially the backbone to our economy and these health care reforms are mainly effecting these small local businesses negatively. I also don't really understand why new health care reforms are even coming out. To me it seems like the government is revamping Obamacare all over again. Who is this supposed to be helping and what's the goal to these new reforms?
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I agree with you. The Obamacare is supposed to provide people insurance at lower cost, but now it is causing problems for small businesses. I don't know about the costs or payments, but if employees are being laid off, wouldn't it make their lives harder?
ReplyDeleteI think most people can agree that Obamacare is far from perfect, and this is another case where this is justified. When businesses are passive about hiring new employees just because they fear the rise in insurance costs for them, there is an obvious problem. The program needs to be scaled back, at least enough so that businesses aren't turning away potentially brilliant workers just because of rising costs that result from Obamacare.
ReplyDeleteSince the businesses are less willing to hire talented workers because of the healthcare system, the small businesses will suffer a great deal and it could have big potential threat on the economy.
ReplyDeleteObamacare is definitely far from perfect like Lem said. I do think though that universal health care is a good idea, we just need to figure it a good care plan and one that doesn't have businesses turning away potentially great employees.
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