>>Not complicated. Fewer jobs, lower pay.<<
Higher prices, fewer doctors.
I’m curious to know how doctors feel about all of this and what their plans may be. If I understand correctly, their pay will be determined by the government as well as the growth of their practices. I haven’t seen much about where they see this heading. Does anyone know? Or can you direct me to some sources? Thanks.
The argument that part time workers will be less productive than full time workers is correct. The part time workers will be tempted to give it up and go on food stamps and other welfare programs if they find work too inconvienent (unlike the Great depression). However, employers MUST resort to the part-time option for their own survival. There are many headwinds for restaurants and retail business, chief among them are inflation and lower incomes. In depressionary times, these are typically the first businesses to go.
The reality, in my opinion, is that Boehner et al. have no gonads and, by the way, bend over America and welcome to Auschwitz. Also, my opinion—Obama, Pelosi, and Reid’s solution to healthcare and social security is to reduce the number of Americans over 65. Never again? Right.
Employers of faith, who oppose abortifacients, contraception, sterilization, or some other mandate under Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, face stark choices:
(1) They can organize under the exemption: certain houses of worship who qualify under the particular section of the Internal Revenue Code, serve almost exclusively members of their denomination, employ almost exclusively members of their denomination, and focus their primary mission on the inculcation of religious values. Because Patient Protection Affordable Care Act builds upon the taxing power, and particularly the income tax, none of the rights and liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights apply; the income-tax amendment superseded them. So these employers must prove their eligibility beyond reasonable doubt to a party inclined toward bias against them. Moreover, these criteria raise troubling questions: is worship of God and preaching the Gospel, even exclusively toward believers, “inculcation of religious values?” Can churches oppose abortion (and voting for its proponents) on theological grounds yet maintain their exemption? How many new members can they accept? And more.
(2) Cease to offer any form of health insurance to any employees. If employer employs more than 50 persons at least 30 hours per week, then a special tax of $2000/employee may apply. Employers will want to stay below this threshold, hiring mostly part-timers. In a collapsed labor market, employees so hired will be grateful for any work. If, however, employee lives in household that earns more than the filing threshold ($12,850/year for a single parent), employee will pay a large tax ($2085/year if said single parent of said income has four or more children). Employees subject to the tax presumably will reduce remuneration of employees concomitantly to recoup the money necessary to pay said tax.
(3) Cease to employ anyone and leave business entirely.
(4) Provide the coverage at extreme financial cost here and the risk of eternal damnation hereafter.
The law grants no other options for employers. Because of the high cost of medical care, many Americans therefore will cease to use any professional medical resources. Fortunately, the law does not prohibit yet the dissemination of medically related knowledge through books, websites, and other media for amateur medicine; the provision of uncompensated first aid among friends and acquaintances, which may involve suddenly heavily taxed medical devices still publicly available over the counter; or the avoidance of the government-sanctioned pro-death medical establishment.
For women, these limited arrangements may increase significantly the risks associated with childbearing. For those of sufficient wealth, however, the law does not prohibit—at least as far as we yet know, but Congress passed the law so that we may find out what is in it—paying doctors and hospitals exorbitant fees as a cash customer. Nor does it yet require explicitly said doctors and hospitals to kill babies or engage in other ethically compromising behavior as a condition of their entry into or persistence in the profession. Nevertheless, further regulations not yet announced and future federal legislation may degrade even these caveats.
Put simply, health insurance soon will be a benefit of the past, and higher taxes a feature of the future. This situation will degrade access to actual health care for millions of marginally healthy Americans (i.e., those economically productive with significant medical expenses) who in the future will scavenge, die, or live in pain. Employers may have compassion on them but cannot provide any form of health insurance. The diminishing middle class continues an ever more precarious existence.
Shorter hours, less pay, fewer doctors, longer waits, specialty medical care for those 'connected' to dem insider groups with 'pull'... Yeah, it's gonna be fun. We're one step from the European and Russian model - where people stop having children because the future's so bleak... and they commit cultural suicide.
As I have become fond of saying in recent days...Embrace your slavery, democrats!