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Prepare for Unemployment If 'ObamaCare' Passes
Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 3-20-10 | Bob McCarty

Posted on 03/20/2010 10:45:25 AM PDT by BobMcCartyWrites

Close to 700,000 people should expect to join the ranks of the unemployed if "ObamaCare" becomes law. If you feel vulnerable, craft a sign like the one shown.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; economy; obamacare; unemployment
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Close to 700,000 people should expect to join the ranks of the unemployed if President Barack Obama's so-called health care reform plan (a.k.a., "ObamaCare") becomes law, according to a study released Wednesday by Americans for Tax Reform and the Beacon Hill Institute. If you feel vulnerable, I suggest you prepare for unemployment now by crafting a sign like the one shown above.

1 posted on 03/20/2010 10:45:25 AM PDT by BobMcCartyWrites
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To: BobMcCartyWrites

Maybe but it will take 3 times or more the number of health care workers to fulfill the requirement.


2 posted on 03/20/2010 10:50:41 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

That’s great if your training is in health care. It’s not for everyone.


3 posted on 03/20/2010 10:52:25 AM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: BobMcCartyWrites

Employees will be made a liability to employers. Can employees generate the revenue necessary to sustain the business? Can the employer stay in business when they increase the prices to cover the increased costs mandated by the government?

How many businesses will take the risk as employer for a significant decrease in revenue?

I say the next business boom will be in a clearing house for contract workers.


4 posted on 03/20/2010 11:01:04 AM PDT by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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To: BobMcCartyWrites; SierraWasp; Grampa Dave; PhilDragoo; Ernest_at_the_Beach
NO WORRIES----IRS WILL NEED 16,500 NEW GESTAPO AGENTS
5 posted on 03/20/2010 11:06:28 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER ( EPA will rule your life)
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To: BobMcCartyWrites

Whaddaya mean PREPARE? I can’t get much more UNemployed than I already am! LOL


6 posted on 03/20/2010 11:12:03 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: BobMcCartyWrites
And I say the American public DOES NOT CARE if you are out of work. The only ones who are really screaming about the unemployment numbers are those who are unemployed.

And it is becoming more and more obvious that the idiots in Washington don't give a damn about us. I am expecting Michelle Osama to make a statement very soon to the effect that if you cannot afford bread then eat cake.

7 posted on 03/20/2010 11:13:56 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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To: Orange1998
I wonder if the health care industries will be able to hire more people. If their medicare and medicaid reimbursements are slashed even more and more and more people are forced into government welfare health care, I don't know where the money will come from to hire adequate nurses, nursing assistants, radiology techs, phlebotomists etc. to handle the stampede of patients.

I may be wrong but I don't think health care will become the employment boom industry that some think it will be. And even if they do start hiring I doubt that pay will be all that great - especially considering the stress of the type of work health care workers do.

8 posted on 03/20/2010 11:15:43 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: griswold3
Can the employer stay in business when they increase the prices to cover the increased costs mandated by the government?

Only if they have paying customers to sell to. Big "if" if 700,000 more jobs are lost as the article predicts.

9 posted on 03/20/2010 11:25:45 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Hey Nancy, how many jobs have been lost since you and the Democrats took Congress?)
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To: BobMcCartyWrites
Oh I have to contemplate unemployment even if health care does not pass.

I work for a defense contractor on an Army post. Our contract is up in December, but they may cancel before then. The contract is unlikely in the extreme to be renewed.

Heck they are cutting out cleaning the buildings, and have cut back on the frequency of cleaning the latrines. The post will no longer cut the grass in most areas, because they have no money for the groundskeepers.

The units will have to take up the slack, at the expense of training time, or other mission oriented stuff. In our units case, there is no way our senior NCOs, DA civilians or officers are going to be out their cutting the grass or cleaning the toilets with their toothbrushes. So the money to have that done (less the toothbrushes) will come out of mission or mission support funding, some of which is helping to fund our contract.

10 posted on 03/20/2010 11:33:08 AM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: 3catsanadog
...I may be wrong but I don't think health care will become the employment boom industry that some think it will be. And even if they do start hiring I doubt that pay will be all that great - especially considering the stress of the type of work health care workers do.

Who wants to work with or treat either those who have an entitlement attitude or with those who now have to wait weeks or months to see their physician? Sounds like pure misery for a job. Which means you'll be left with exhausted overworked staff or the Nurse Ratched types who love to bully the patients.

11 posted on 03/20/2010 11:39:04 AM PDT by 444Flyer (America, we are being waterboarded by Obama and his minions.)
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To: 3catsanadog

No hospitals will not be hiring more people. A friend of mine works at one of the local hospitlas and they have already been told that if healthcare passes every dept will have to take cuts because they won’t be able to afford all of them.


12 posted on 03/20/2010 11:50:54 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: CaliforniaCon

I really do resemble that remark.


13 posted on 03/20/2010 12:11:09 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I shed tears for my country.)
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To: 3catsanadog

If the health care industry (government) hires more health care workers every hospital will be like walking into a V.A. Hospital. 90% minorities working there. And most not qualified.


14 posted on 03/20/2010 12:12:41 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I shed tears for my country.)
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To: griswold3

Look for an underground economy to start.


15 posted on 03/20/2010 12:23:40 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: BOBTHENAILER

16,500 new jobs—it’s a jobs bill.


16 posted on 03/20/2010 12:30:27 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: BobMcCartyWrites

Employers won’t be able to afford the additional health care charges mandated by 0bamscare.


17 posted on 03/20/2010 12:31:50 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ( I Will Not Comply! - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: 3catsanadog

The hospital systems around here are laying off because of so many folks not paying their bill. They are already slowly going broke.


18 posted on 03/20/2010 1:13:01 PM PDT by davetex (All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
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To: 3catsanadog

“I may be wrong but I don’t think health care will become the employment boom industry that some think it will be.”

That’s your government dollars at work. Turning a growth industry into an expense that will destroy access to health care, bankrupt the USA, and provide pressure to outsource costliest treatments to places like India etc.

Your government ruining and destroying one of the few remaining economic engines that could help improve the economy.


19 posted on 03/20/2010 1:20:41 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: BobMcCartyWrites

A long hot summer with a mass of seething unemployed workers is a dangerous thing for government!


20 posted on 03/20/2010 1:25:27 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT,NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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