Posted on 12/17/2013 7:48:07 AM PST by tobyhill
If there's been one inexorable trend coming out of the HR departments of major employers, it's been the steady erosion of worker pay and benefits. Razor-thin raises, defined benefit pensions replaced by 401(k) plans, shrinking healthcare--if you've been on a big company's payroll, you know the drill.
Expect the trend to continue or even pick up steam, because employers have an ideal scapegoat right now: the Affordable Care Act. It looks like the blame-Obamacare game is having some effect. According to an AP poll released over the weekend, three-quarters of those with private or employer-based insurance think the Affordable Care Act is the reason for changes in their health coverage for 2014.
Some companies have been blaming the act for forcing them to roll back health coverage if it exceeds "Cadillac plan" standards. This is curious, because the employer tax on Cadillac plans, which is getting fingered as the culprit, doesn't start until 2018. If your company is cutting back your benefits now, it's because it wants to cut its payroll costs, period.
Stagnation in pay and cutbacks in other benefits? If you're a big employer, you can blame those on the "uncertainty" of your healthcare costs thanks to, you know, Obamacare.
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Man kills boy with baseball bat... then blames Louisville Slugger company.
Why those rascals — we need to repeal Obamacare and that’ll fix ‘em!
Source: Wikipedia.
With 80% initial (2009) polled voter opposition to Obamacare, and 73 % polled voter opposition to Obamacare now, Boehner-Cantor-Ryan rammed through the Ryan-Murray “Compromise” Bill to finance “The Law of the Land” Marxist Obamacare Bill for the next two years!
Only 94 House members stood and delivered opposition to this cave-in bill, thus insuring TWO MORE YEARS of Obamanation Crisis Economics to burden us voters with!
The 2014 Election needs to be about ridding the US House from the RINOs who caved-in on this bill, as we cannot trust them ever again to protect us from the Marxist Senate, Marxist Supreme Court, or Marxist Administration.
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On the Democrat side, you Lurkers need to be honest with yourselves concerning continuing your loyalty to your Marxist Democrats and Marxist Progressives in the US House and Senate.
FYI, a Marxist is anyone who believes in “Income Redistribution.”
Income Redistribution is just the PC term for what Karl Marx advocated:
“FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED.”
The self delusion is unbelievable.
Attention: 2014 - Employer Mandate kicks in & Tax!!
The head of our HR function told the entire company that we will get rid of our health plan in the next 2-3 years because of costs associated with Obamacare. There will be millions that lose their plan. All by design.
In the Baraqqi Depression, employers have all the leverage.
Jobs (other than 29ers) are hard to find.
No mention of that by the author.
While that isn’t good for the employees, if we can somehow divorce “health insurance” from employment it would be a big benefit.
This mess all began in WW2 when unions won the benefit because employers couldn’t raise govt controlled wages.
It’s collapsing on it’s own and the only thing that will be left behind is the reminiscence of insurance.
Scapegoats are those who are blamed despite non-culpability. Obamacare is NOT a scapegoat - it is fully culpable.
“This mess all began in WW2 when unions won the benefit because employers couldn’t raise govt controlled wages.”
Which led to the idea that somehow health care is “free” and a “right.”
Healthcare will be the death of us all.
This is another example of a mediot getting a paycheck from a left wing media outlet.
This is the same type of drugged out logic where guns are blamed when illegals and Holder’s thugs shoot, wound and kill each other over illegal drug deals and just for tribal territorial actions.
These folks really don’t get it.
“Scapegoat”
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
A liberal sh**s the bed and it’s everybody else’s fault.
Obamacare is to insurance what the Dresden raid was to urban renewal: burn it to the ground and let the communists rebuild it afterwards.
Baraq thought business owners were defenseless. I suppose those UAW businesses won’t be any more competitive than they were.
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