Posted on 07/23/2013 9:30:51 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
For Kevin Pace, the president’s health-care law could have meant better health insurance. Instead, it produced a pay cut.
Like many of his colleagues, the adjunct music professor at Northern Virginia Community College had managed to assemble a hefty course load despite his official status as a part-time employee. But his employer, the state, slashed his hours this spring to avoid a Jan. 1 requirement that all full-time workers for large employers be offered health insurance. The law defines “full time” as 30 hours a week or more.
“We work so hard for so little pay,” he said. “You would think they would want to make an investment in society, pay the teachers back and give us health care.”
This month, the Obama administration delayed the employer insurance requirement until January 2015. But Virginia, like some other employers around the country that capped part-timers’ hours in anticipation of the initial deadline, has no plans to abandon its new 29-hour-a-week limit.
The impact on Pace and thousands of other workers in Virginia is an unintended consequence of the health law, which, as the most sweeping new social program in decades, is beginning to reshape aspects of American life. . .
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Your problem is believing that being ignorant or indoctrinated disqualifies someone from being a college professor.
Unintended rears its ugly head again. If Democrats pass a law and it backfires, it's always "unintended".
If Republicans pass a law and it backfires, it's evil.
Anybody with a lick of sense could have told you what would happen in the wake of Obamacare. So far, all the predictions have come to pass.
You get fewer hours and you have to buy your own expensive health insurance by law.
They didn’t see this coming?
Of course they did.
They are finally able to add 2 and 2?
Yes, yes it was. More boomers voted for Obama than against him.
Boomers also voted to pass the monstrosity in the senate and the house. So they own the bill.
Gee, no kidding.
Looks like the clue bird finally dropped a poop bomb onto the pointy little heads of the WaPo editorial staff.
If we are lucky, this bad experience will turn the whole younger generation against the Democrats for the rest of their long, expected lifetime.
You’re welcome. Perhaps I should have said “those genXers who voted for obama”. Then you could have said “boomers who voted for obama”.
Probably won't notice it, they are too busy debasing themselves in front of the black messiah Obama
The Republicans should pass a law that denies federal funds to any city or state government entity that cuts hours to avoid Obamacare.
Pace, 34, said. “. . . This isn’t right on any level.”
And he’s absolutely correct. But sadly enough, I bet dollars to doughnuts Pace was a major Obama supporter and overall “progressive”, and was also a big Obamacare supporter too, no doubt because, like his fellow “progressives”, he thought he’d be getting something for nothing. He probably cheered the passage of Obamacare without having a clue as to what it actually contained, but his “progressive” leaders told him it was wonderful so he knew all would be well. Pace and his ilk are crying in their designer beer right as the Obamacare disaster unfolds and they find out that “progressives” are no more immune from being screw by it than the rest of us peasants. Maybe they’ll wise up next time. Naaaaaaa.
not sure that they could get it thru the house, but yes that probably needs to happen, maybe take it even farther down to 10 hours. We do not need more part-time jobs and that would reverse some of the Social Engineering.
second thought, is the one of those rules that the IRS or HHS can change on a whim?
Welcome to Starnesville.
Oh, I just won’t believe it.
Obamacare means free healthcare on demand, and I won’t believe anything else about it!
/libthink
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! There is NOTHING in this bill that could have brought about better health insurance. On the contrary, the purpose of the bill is to permanently destroy the entire insurance industry.
Pardon, I just had to fix that.
Bump
If you look closely this is gov’t employed weenie verses govt employed weenie. The Federale O-Care weenies have reduced the employment hours of this state of Virginia employed weenie by calling 32 hours a full time employee and subject to 0-Care. So his state university employed music teacher (professor) got his hours cut back
Thank you. Not all of us voted for him, fwiw.
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