[mfish13]

Obama strikes again!

[CptnObvious]

the employer mandate effectively caps both the number of workers many businesses can hire and how many hours they will work

Hint: Think 29 1/2 hours per week or less.

[DonaldC]

I imagine nearly all companies in this boat have taken whatever action they are going to. Any stats to be had regarding this?

[LoneStar42]

Care to guess why all the headlines are about gun control?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Those which lack the resources to do so will avoid the mandate by assuring that the number of full-time workers they employ remains below 50.

And the Chamber of Commerce cheers, as all those upstart competitors remain stifled.

[Moonman62]

Why didn’t the GOP bring this up during the last congressional session? (Like I don’t know.)

[Mr. Jeeves]

And she also seems unaware that an employee can work fewer than 40 hours per week and still be considered full-time in the brave new world of Obamacare.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle often seem to be unaware of the actual mechanics of the legislation they pass. They remember only the "good intentions" behind it - and that's what they repeat in public. When challenged with facts, they reframe the question to accuse the questioner of "bad intentions."

It would be a trivial tactic to defeat - if we had an actual independent media.

[MHGinTN]

Redistributing ‘the wealth’ by means of edict not congressional bills. The thug regime would tell you that ‘those small businesses are not doling out enough of their obscene profit margin’. The democrats are trying to fashion a mix of fascism and communism ... their dream for a once great Republic, yet the democraps will get re-elected by the dolees.

[PGR88]

This mandate will prevent countless small employers from hiring workers they would otherwise have hired and incentivize many others to replace full-time employees with part-timers

Its all OK - we have a Federal Reserve that plans our monetary system soviet-style, who can print up all the unbacked, paper dollars, and manipulate interest rates, to support all the debt the US Government needs to pay for 90-100 million non-working Americans. Its all good!

[Lorianne]

I have a relative who is (and always has been) a lib Dem voter. She is now caught in this trap. She can only get 19.5 hours of work a week since that is the cutoff for paying health insurance and other benefits in her state job. She now has to scramble for 2 part time jobs and she will get no health insurance from either (nor any other benefits such as vacation pay, paid sick leave, etc.). She is mad as hell ... but not at Obama/Dems. She still supports them. She says those rules were put in place by Republicans. I cannot explain it to her otherwise ... she will not listen.

[Pollster1]

I used to have more than 50 employees, but now I have zero. Thanks to Obama, my former employees are now guaranteed . . . less than they had before. At least they get “free” birth control, for their $6,000 increase in insurance costs and their tripling (or more) of their deductibles.