agreed and it definitely would be IF part time workers didnt count toward the full time employee number.
under obamacare all part time hours will be added up and divided by 40 and that number will be added to the number of full time workers to get an equivilent full time employee number.
that is what the penalty will be based off of.
The U.S. isn't Germany, I know. However, I would like to make some comparisons between these to countries and their health-care systems. I picked Germany because this is where my son and his family live, so I think I know a little about their health-care system. Although my son works for the U.S. government, which provides his and his families health-care insurance, his wife and children are all also covered by German health-care because his wife is German and she is employed by a German company. The German health-care is the medical insurance they prefer to use because it is better and more accessible for them.
In Germany employers are required to provide health-care coverage to their employees. This has been the case for at least as long as my son and his wife have been married, which is 25 years and most likely a lot longer.
My wife and I have hosted a few exchange students from Germany over the years. In two cases their parents were doctors. Doctors in Germany do not make the big bucks (as compared to other occupations) as U.S. doctors do. I do not know what the German government controls are over prescription drug pricing, but I do know that drug pricing controls in the U.S. are controlled by the drug companies more so than the government and their profits are huge. My cousin, a retired CEO for Pfizer is enormously wealthy as a result of his former position with the drug company giant.
My point is that the health-care crisis in this country has many layers. Certainly, greedy for profit medical insurance providers play a role. Overpaid doctors contribute to the problem. The masses of uninsured people who need health-care, but cannot pay for it, are a problem. Our system as it stood can not continue. ObamaCare may not be perfect, but it is at least acknowledg that something must change and taking a stab at doing this.
I am going to reiterate what I said before because I think you all need to consider this; a lot of Getbiggers are young and healthy. They probably don't see the need for health-care benefits because they believe they are invincible. Trust me when I say that you are not invincible. Anyone can get seriously ill and at any age. Pray that this does not happen to you if you are uninsured, because if you have accumulated anything of value, like real estate and you need expensive medical care, you could lose everything you worked for due to this illness.
Of course there is always another way to look at things. If people who cannot afford medical care were simply denied it and subsequently died as a result, it would lessen the problems we face as a result of over population. Many of those folk and their families who are stuck in menial, low-paying jobs with no benefits will simply cease to exist. Heck, with soaring unemployment rates, this will open up more slots for other slaves to the wealthy 1%.
Maybe I overstate, but anything is possible.