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Where there's a loop hole, government will close it and government will also close loop holes that allow companies to have a full staff of "part time" employees.

IMHO, no they won't. Obamacare was specifically set up to ultimately achieve socialized medicine (single payer). By putting the 30 hour requirement into the Bill, the Democrats knew companies would put most of their employees on part-time status. That achieves two things.

1) The company doesn't have to provide health insurance to the employee.

2) Without employer-provided health insurance, the "mandate" that everyone has to have have insurance kicks in (with a whole host of minimum coverage rules and mandatory "freebies" making the cost of the policy somewhere between $10-15k). Since the employee can't afford a policy from a private insurance company...say hello to socialized medicine.

Yes, the first few year the uninsured employee will simply pay the $2500 "tax" and gamble on his/her family's health (after the first year or two, the amount of the "tax" increases incrementally). When the uninsured need heart by-passes, cancer treatments, HIV treatments etc., with no insurance, the system will crumble and ... say hello to socialized medicine