Sunday, October 27, 2013

More ObamaCare Disasters


From the Baltimore Sun: As the federal health reform known as Obamacare takes hold, many community colleges in Maryland and across the country are capping the hours of adjunct faculty — who make up the bulk of their teaching force — to avoid paying for the instructors' health insurance.
The limits put the adjunct teachers on the leading edge of fallout from the Affordable Care Act, whose critics predict that a range of employers will increasingly rely on part-timers to sidestep insurance requirements that go into effect in 2015.
Cash-strapped community colleges in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard and Prince George's counties, among other places, have pre-emptively limited adjuncts' hours, starting this year. Expanding health coverage to such instructors would cost schools across the state $17 million, officials at the Maryland Association of Community Colleges estimated.
Though many schools already had hourly limits in place, their enforcement was frequently lax. The current efforts will keep all but a handful of instructors from qualifying for health benefits under the law.
Adjuncts' hours are also being limited at schools in some other states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Obamacare has been the target of controversy since its passage, and Republican efforts to repeal the law were at the heart of a congressional stalemate that led to the recent 16-day shutdown of the federal government. The controversy over the law continues, with the focus turning last week to technical problems that consumers across the nation have encountered in trying to sign up online for insurance.
Critics such as Rep. Andy Harris say the adjunct teacher situation offers one more reason that the Affordable Care Act was a mistake. Harris, a physician and Maryland's only Republican in Congress, notes that some restaurants and retailers have announced similar plans to limit the hours of part-time workers as a result of the law.
"They're reading the writing on the wall," Harris said. He's co-sponsoring one bill that would redefine full time employment as 40 hours per week and another that would repeal the Affordable Care Act altogether. "Insurance is just getting too expensive" to provide, he said.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-adjuncts-20131026,0,6060361.story#ixzz2iurMfh7F
So, what excuse will liberals use now.  Before they blamed businesses, run mostly by conservatives, for cutting hours and playing games with the system.
Now, colleges, colleges that are hardly conservative, are doing the same thing: Cutting hours of their employees.
Once again it shows that those who support and run ObamaCare are book smart because they worked in education and journalism, but they are street dumb as rocks, and that is insulting rocks, when it comes to real world matters. 
It's time to dump ObamaCare, Obama needs to resign and hang his head in shame and apologize to the American people for the disaster he gave us.
If Obama were a Japanese leader a couple of decades ago, he would have committed Hari-Kari because of the sins he committed against this Country. 
Too bad Obama isn't Japanese with old Japanese values.

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