Part One
The ACA/Obamacare requires employers of 50 or more to offer health insurance to those employees working 30 hours or more per week. For years now, Republican spinners have railed against what they call the "elimination of the traditional 40 hour week". They say the ACA has "redefined" full-time employment and has caused employers to slash their workers' hours to less than 30, just so they can avoid the insurance coverage requirement. "Oh, the humanity!" cry the R's. "All those folks losing hours and income, and it's all Obama's fault!"It's a bald-faced lie. There is absolutely no evidence of systemic, massive cuts to working hours. And never mind the R's demonstrably false premise that an employer's only concern in determining work hours is . . . health insurance coverage! LOL!
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| "I'm tanned and rested, and now there's even more of us to waste the public's time and money." |
But the GOP never lets facts get in the way of theater, so yesterday the House passed a bill to change the coverage threshhold to 40 hours per week. The main purpose of the ACA is to expand access to many of those previously uninsured. The Republican bill is a shameless attempt to do the exact opposite by allowing employers to reduce their number of covered workers.
This House bill will probably pass the Senate as well, but it's DOA once it hits Obama's desk, and everyone knows it. How many times is it now that Republicans have wasted their time fucking with Obamacare? Fifty? Sixty? I've lost count.
Part Two
In this day and age, you would think every person in public service would be eager to renounce racism, and disavow anyone who, say, once spoke at a Louisiana rally for neo-Nazi white supremacists and once referred to himself as "David Duke without the baggage." Distancing yourself from that sort of idiocy would be not just politically correct, but plain old correct. Right? |
| "See? No robe, no cross, no torch. Like I said, no baggage!" |
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