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Obamacare Hits Hollywood: Studios Brace for the Affordable Care Act
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 6/26/2013 | Paul Bond

Posted on 06/27/2013 12:58:17 PM PDT by SueRae

Three letters have been giving the payroll-services industry fits for several months now: ACA. That's the semi-acronym for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, and it's up to the payroll industry -- which cuts checks to production workers and offers related financial services to TV and film studios -- to help educate its clients on the rules before a good portion of the law kicks in Jan. 1.

"It's a morass of regulations and requirements, and everyone's trying to figure out what their exposure is," says Eric Belcher, president and CEO of Cast & Crew Entertainment Services. Adds Mark Goldstein, CEO of Entertainment Partners, which has held 16 seminars to help studios understand ACA: "It's going to be a very big deal."

Determining the exact nature of the new laws has been difficult, given that many ACA terms have yet to be worked out. Hollywood productions, for instance, might find it irksome simply trying to categorize employees as full- or part-time, seasonal or variable, and it's important that they get the classifications right lest they face hefty fines. "ACA is thousands of pages, and it wasn't written with this industry in mind," says Belcher.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


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"ACA wasn't written with this industry in mind". Fool. It wasn't written with ANY industry in mind. I find myself fresh out of crying towels. Again.
1 posted on 06/27/2013 12:58:17 PM PDT by SueRae
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Hollywood trailer for next blockbuster war movie:

"Featuring a cast of thousands 49."

2 posted on 06/27/2013 1:02:02 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: SueRae

Ha. Hope they choke on it.


3 posted on 06/27/2013 1:05:42 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: SueRae

Another group of idiots who will (have just ABOUT) priced themselves out of a job!

How much is the cost of a movie ticket these days? (I don’t go, so it’s a mystery to me)

When everyone is broke and on the dole, what the he$# will the great unwashed masses do for entertainment...because we KNOW they can’t read?


4 posted on 06/27/2013 1:08:50 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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It wasn't written with ANY industry in mind.

Exactly.

5 posted on 06/27/2013 1:09:43 PM PDT by MEGoody (You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: SueRae

I hope it knocks the liberal suckers into the ground.


6 posted on 06/27/2013 1:10:17 PM PDT by pallis
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To: SueRae
"Thus, that 90-day wait period was, in reality, as long as 119 days. The ACA is unclear on this. Does 90 days mean 90 days? If so, it really means 60 days."

That is just...simply...eloquent. Pure poetry.

7 posted on 06/27/2013 1:12:16 PM PDT by ReeseBN38416
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To: SueRae

Hollywood likes to talk liberal, but deep down it is a business like any other, and they will outsource and evade as much as possible.


8 posted on 06/27/2013 1:12:27 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

And produced in under 28 hours


9 posted on 06/27/2013 1:12:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SueRae
and it's important that they get the classifications right lest they face hefty fines
LOL! Like that would happen to anything connected to Hollywood.

Not to worry Hollywood. Your exemptions are sitting on Obama's/Holder's/IRS desks waiting for the checks to clear.

10 posted on 06/27/2013 1:18:18 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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The liberals will just insist on larger production tax credits and up front monies.

Libs don’t pay taxes. See Warren Buffet, Denise Rich, Marc Anthony, White House Cabinet.


11 posted on 06/27/2013 1:18:26 PM PDT by NoLibZone (There is only one solution: Secession by the Red states.No need to be in the NYC union.)
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Literally all of the comments are scathing against hollywood liberals who voted for Obama.


12 posted on 06/27/2013 1:19:47 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: SueRae
"It's a morass of regulations and requirements, and everyone's trying to figure out what their exposure is," says Eric Belcher, president and CEO of Cast & Crew Entertainment Services. Adds Mark Goldstein, CEO of Entertainment Partners, which has held 16 seminars to help studios understand ACA: "It's going to be a very big deal."

Hey Mark..

Don't tell me you didn't vote for Lear Deader.

I have some words of advice for you on the ACA...

Choke on it, you deserve it.

13 posted on 06/27/2013 1:20:39 PM PDT by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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Another group of idiots who will (have just ABOUT) priced themselves out of a job!

Add to that, the massive tax increases already passed in their "One Party State", The eventual benefits for other "partners" and I can see a glut on Porsche's and forclosures in La-La-Land, as the work is outsourced to other Countries literally..

14 posted on 06/27/2013 1:26:30 PM PDT by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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To: SueRae

Working on a film is sort of a temp assignment. This throws a real kink into the cost structure for the folks who are payrolling them.


15 posted on 06/27/2013 1:38:22 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Earthdweller
Literally all of the comments are scathing against hollywood liberals who voted for Obama.

Normally I don't read the full articles, but after your reply, I had to go read the comments. Not one comment supporting the holly weird crowd. Hope they all fail.

16 posted on 06/27/2013 1:38:35 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: SueRae
ACA is thousands of pages, and it wasn't written with this industry in mind," says Belcher.

This stupid turkey, the entire population is in the same rotten Hollywood supported BS.

17 posted on 06/27/2013 1:39:10 PM PDT by Logical me
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May it bankrupt them all.


18 posted on 06/27/2013 2:37:54 PM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"Featuring a cast of thousands 49."

I wonder if CGI people are covered?
19 posted on 06/27/2013 3:20:11 PM PDT by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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