Some low-wage employers are moving toward hiring part-time workers instead of full-time ones to mitigate the health-care overhaul's requirement that large companies provide health insurance for full-time workers or pay a fee. Several restaurants, hotels and retailers have started or are preparing to limit schedules of hourly workers to less than 30 hours a week. That is the threshold at which large employers in 2014 would have to offer workers a minimum level of insurance or pay a penalty starting at $2,000 for each worker.

The shift is one of the first significant steps by employers to avoid requirements under the health-care law, and whether the trend continues hinges on Tuesday's election results. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has pledged to overturn the Affordable Care Act, although he would face obstacles doing so.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/health-law-spurs-shift-hours-022100532.html

So now the ones needing the full time benefits the most will get cut off and be lucky to get even 30 hours a week with no benefits. I hope you Obama supporters are reading this. How is this for hope and change.

low wage workers working 40 hours vs 30 hours will make almost no difference. Its the difference between earning 1000 dollars per check and 750 per check. The difference is they will not be discriminated against by health insurance companies anymore.

Ummm they wont get health care being part time, did you read the story? There is a world of difference between full and part time. Paid holidays, retirement , sick leave, maternity leave and so on. Say goodbye to it all and I hope the ones who voted this clown in are the first to take a hit.

BTW if you read further into Obamacare it will tax your health care benefits as income. In other words if your employer pays your health care at a cost of $500 a month to them that will now be considered income.

Foreward fools.

Oh god I can't wait for Romney's career to fall apart and to see him get shot out of the cheap end of gay porn. You know he wants it too, thats the crazy thing! Dude loves wiener in his anus holes

not all jobs have benefits regardless of the number of hours. many retail jobs allow leave but the missed time is uncompensated, quite different from what you're used to in DC dreamland.

both obama and romney kill high-deductible plans. the insurance premium has become a tax in and of itself to force everyone to pay into the system.

Pre-existing conditions Wrote:
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> low wage workers working 40 hours vs 30 hours will
> make almost no difference. Its the difference
> between earning 1000 dollars per check and 750 per
> check. The difference is they will not be
> discriminated against by health insurance
> companies anymore.


A 25% pay difference makes little difference makes little difference to people making 1k a pay check?

Being a partisan hack gets old fast.

"The difference is they will not be
> discriminated against by health insurance
> companies anymore"

True, because they will no longer have a health care plan as smaller companies cannot afford it thanks to obamacare. With no health insurance you go to Fairfax Hospital ER and take a number comrade.

Funny how the rightards are so concerned with the poor these days. LMFAO

monk Wrote:
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> Funny how the rightards are so concerned with the
> poor these days. LMFAO


Funny how your only comment is a talking points insult.

Liberals are such an angry hateful bunch

partisan hack Wrote:
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> monk Wrote:
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> > Funny how the rightards are so concerned with
> the
> > poor these days. LMFAO
>
>
> Funny how your only comment is a talking points
> insult.
>
> Liberals are such an angry hateful bunch


It's all they got mang.