ObamaCare’s Latest Victim: Head Start

This week, The Daily Caller reported on the newest victim of ObamaCare’s high costs and increased regulation – the Head Start program. The program, which provides informative health and education services to low-income families and children, expects to take a hit next year when ObamaCare is fully implemented – and program officials are less than pleased.

In one conference session on the pending healthcare bill, “some of the [managers for regional Head Start] organizations [said] ‘We don’t know what to do,’” said Elizabeth Steinberg, the CEO of Community Action Partnership in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

The worried managers come from “all over the country,” said Steinberg, whose Head Start program has 387 children.

Nancy Nordyk, a Head Start director in Oregon, predicts that costs next year will increase more than 9%. And due to these skyrocketing costs, many program workers are going to find their hours cut and consequently, a smaller paycheck. Additionally, some staffers may face lay-offs to make up for the increased daily costs of running the program and employing staff.

So let’s get this straight – reduced hours, fewer employees, and more paperwork for program officials?

What a nightmare.

Children all across the country are going to be affected by these cuts and price increases. It’s unacceptable for the administration to sit back and allow these higher costs to devastate programs across the country.

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