‘Part-time America’, Medicare cuts and the IPAB board make 0-care unworkable and it will fail.
1. Part time workers will not have health insurance and it is an open question whether there will be any functioning state exchanges. Many conservative states have openly opposed the exchanges. Other Leftist states might have plans for state exchanges, but these are the very states with bloated budgets and the exchanges will be impossible to fund.
2. Part time workers that become sick will lose their jobs and go on Medicaid, further burdening state budgets. Other part time workers will decide that work is not worth it and will quit, go on welfare, get a cash job and go on Medicaid.
3. Medicare patients will be rationed by IPAB and lower reimbursements and more regulations will drive physicians and even some hospitals and nursing homes out of business.
4. With fewer people paying into the exchanges, and sicker people enrolled in the exchanges, prices will skyrocket for those that do not qualify for a subsidy. The subsidy will produce income lock, that is, employees will be less likely to accept raises that would eliminate their subsidy.
5. All of the above results in fewer total hours worked and consequently, less tax revenue resulting in a continual negative feedback loop.
It’s all part of the plan to bring this nation down to size. Everyone, except for the nomenklatura, should just be getting by with a subsistence existence.