Posted on 09/19/2013 5:12:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Home Depot is transferring roughly 20,000 part-time workers to the taxpayer-funded Obamacare exchanges, marking another step in the nationwide rollout of President Barack Obamas most prized accomplishment.
Unfortunately, the ACA [Affordable Care Act] precludes us from offering the limited liability medical plan weve been offering the part-time associates, said Stephen Holmes, the companys director of corporate communications.
The 20,000 employees will have more options on government-run exchanges, he told The Daily Caller.
Home Depot Inc. employs roughly 340,000 people, but declined to give a precise number of people who will be impacted by the change.
The government-run exchange requires people to buy insurance for a government-designed set of health-care services, including services promoted by corporate lobbies. The insurance packages can be more expensive than sought by workers, especially younger workers, but the extra costs are partially offset by subsidies from other taxpayers.
Home Depots current limited liability plan allows part-timers to get critical health-care coverage at low cost....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Obamacare (formerly Boehnercare) is working as designed. Single payer by 2018.
“If you like your insurance.... fooled ya!”
Yeah but Obamacare is government run so what could possibly go wrong?
These “journalists” are reporting this like it is good news of Obamacare working. I wonder how those 20,000 employees feel about being thrown into the equivalent of the BIA health plan where the unofficial motto is “don’t get sick after june.”
There is one good effect of Obamacare, divorcing medical “insurance” (which is really pre-paid medical care) from employment.
This terrible system was a side effect of WW2 wage controls.
Once medical consumers were divorced from costs, the costs ran wild.
Satanbama: “I, um, said you could keep your insurance. But those mean capitalist Republican business owners took it away from ya. I ask you to join with me in, um, raising the corporate tax rate to 110%.”
They are still divorced from costs now that the “Government” is paying for it instead of their employer.
How does a part timer afford anything on the exchange?
Are workers correctly blaming Obama/Democrats, or blaming Republicans?
So a 22 year old male now gets to have maternity coverage and annual prostate exams. Hurray!
Home Depot didn’t send them anywhere.
Under Odingocare their current insurance became illegal.
Apparently you haven’t been keeping up with the costs of policies under Obamacare:
That the current coverage became illegal should be shouted from the roof tops!
Yes, I am sure this is the plan. Collapse the system, and they will have what they wanted all along.
They are blaming the Republicans. Everyone knows that Nancy Pelosi and harry Reid did everything in their power to defeat it and it was only overwhelming votes by a republican controlled house and senate that passed the Obamacare bill and the president was forced to sign it because he knew the republicans had enough votes to override his veto.
It may divorce insurance from employment but it is marrying health care to big government. Which is even worse.
Yep!
Exactly. EXACTLY. Needs repeating over and over and over.
With the ACA slow moving train wreck continuing, Democrats (who own it lock, stock, and barrel) will not retake the House in 2014 and there's a very good possibility they're going to lose seats in the Senate.
No one seriously running for President in 2016 is going to campaign on single payer.
Who knows what's going to happen, but hopefully little by little parts of ACA will be changed, repealed, or struck down as unconstitutional.
The GOP needs to come up with a unified proposal of free market solutions to the spiraling cost of health care.
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