Pizza Shop Ditches Obamacare Surcharge After One DayPARK SLOPE: A day after announcing it would implement a three percent "Affordable Care Act surcharge" to pay for employees' health care, a popular local pizza joint said it'll remove the charge from menus because some customers viewed it as "anti-Obamacare," owners said. Franny's on Flatbush Avenue raised prices and added the surcharge Tuesday in an effort to give more money to their cooking staff and pay for employer-mandated health care required by the ACA, they said.