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Related: About this forumGOP Congress' First Priority: Yanking Health Insurance From 1.5 Million Americans
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/obamacare-republican-congress-full-time-hoursOne of the first things House Republicans plan to do after Congress reconvenes Tuesday is vote on a bill that would gut Obamacareand could deprive up to 1.5 million Americans of their employer-sponsored health insurance. After the GOP-controlled House passes the bill, the newly Republican Senate is likely to pass the measure too. What's more, President Barack Obama may be forced to sign this legislation if it is attached to a must-pass budget bill later this year.
Here's the background. The Affordable Care Act requires companies with 50 or more employees to provide affordable health insurance to 95 percent of their full-time workers or pay a fine. This regulation, known as the employer mandate, goes into effect this year. Here's the catch: The law defines employees who work 30 or more hours per week as full time. The legislation that House Republicans are expected to bring to the floor this week would change the definition of full time to 40 hours per week for purposes of the law.
This may sound harmless, but it's notbecause companies that don't want to provide health insurance for their employees can avoid doing so by cutting workers' hours.
"I call this the 'send people home a half hour early on Friday and deny them health insurance' bill," says Tim Jost, a health care law scholar at the Washington and Lee University School of Law who has consulted with the Obama administration on implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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GOP Congress' First Priority: Yanking Health Insurance From 1.5 Million Americans (Original Post)
hue
Jan 2015
OP
1 more permanent employee from jobs created and Keystone XL will have to provided health insurance.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#1
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. 1 more permanent employee from jobs created and Keystone XL will have to provided health insurance.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)2. It's important to start
fucking people over right away.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)4. It's called "trickle down" in GOP-speak.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. Time to take away the billions in Federal money handed over to insurance Corps and expand,
Medicaid/Medicare for ALL Americans. We can just pay our "affordable premium amount" to Medicaid.
Cut out the 'for profit' middlemen and the anti- American Congress who "work" for the Insurance Corps.