No, Obamacare isn’t killing full-time jobs, new evidence shows

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President Obama's health-care reform hasn't meant less time on the job for American workers, according to three newly published studies that challenge one of the main arguments raised by critics of the Affordable Care Act.

One provision of the law, which is widely known as Obamacare, requires businesses with more than 50 employees to offer health insurance to those working at least 30 hours a week. That mandate took effect this year.

Republicans, and some Democrats, worried that employers would look for ways to get around the mandate, either by giving their employees fewer than 30 hours, or by hiring fewer people.

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"The data, to date, basically say that that hasn't happened, at least on aggregate basis -- that there really hasn't been nearly the change that some people were expecting," said Chris Ryan, a vice president at the payroll-management firm ADP.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/12/no-obamacare-isnt-killing-full-time-jobs-new-evidence-shows/?postshare=7701439404768283


New Report Confirms What The GOP Won't Admit: Obamacare Is Working
More people are insured, and more people can afford their health care.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released the latest results of the National Health Interview Survey. According to the survey, just 9.2 percent of the population, or about 29 million people, had no coverage during the first three months of 2015. That’s down from 11.5 percent in 2014, 14.4 percent in 2013, and 16 percent back in 2010.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obamacare-cdc-report_55ca0bd1e4b0f1cbf1e6393f?kvcommref=mostpopular

unfortunately my job did cut hours but thankfully Obamacare has helped

[yeoman6987]

1. Many full time jobs went to part time

But it is not completely because of obamacare but the overall erosion of benefits which has become an expense companies no longer want to pay for. I think it will get worse especially as automation kicks into overdrive and those left with jobs will do whatever is necessary to keep the hours given without benefits at all. Our future is dismal unless drastic changes occur.

[Hortensis]

3. True, Yeoman, but take heart. Let problems get bad enough and they force solutions. Our problem is

that we always wait until change turns into full-blown crisis, then play catch-up. Like healthcare reform. By the '90s we had reached a crisis 80% of the population recognized and really wanted fixed, we shot down reform anyway, lived with a disaster that literally broke millions economically and/or physically for another 17 years or so (a cycle length political scientists predicted), and finally...change began. Inevitably.

[spanone]

2. facts have no place in the republican party

neither facts or science are respected by the right.

[mcar]

4. K&R