Life Under ObamaCare: Hours Cut, Coverage Lost

As the full implementation of ObamaCare is drawing closer, the real-life impact it’s having on workers is becoming startlingly clear.

Take McCoy Faulker for instance.

In the Raleigh News and Observer this morning, we read how Faulkner, and others like him, are being hurt because of ObamaCare onerous provisions.

Faulkner is a substitute teacher in North Carolina and, unlike his full-time counterparts, isn’t eligible for free health insurance. So he pays over half his monthly salary for coverage.

Under ObamaCare, people who work over 30 hours a week are eligible for health insurance through their employer. However, the NC school district where Faulkner works, and others like it, are trying to drastically cut some employees’ hours to keep them under the 30 hour threshold.

The News and Observer writes that these types of calculations are becoming quite common with Obamacare’s implementation.

“While many businesses are scaling back work hours to keep part-timers out of the company insurance plan, others are not hiring so as not to cross the 50-employee definition for large employers – the federal threshold for having to insure full-time employees. Still other businesses are mulling the option of scotching company health coverage altogether and paying a federal fine instead.

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“Nancy Adams, owner of two Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in North Carolina, said that’s one option under consideration for her business. The $2,000-per-worker fine would apply to just five full-time employees at the two stores, amounting to $10,000 a year, she said, because the law exempts the first 30 workers from the fine.”

 

ObamaCare’s burdensome regulations are hurting workers across the country. Join the NRCC as we fight to repeal this disastrous law.