No argument with your overall theme but, again, before the ACA employers were never required to provide insurance to anyone, regardless of the hours worked. Obamacare didn’t free them of any such obligations.
It freed them if they use part-time workforces which many employers do now more than ever. The ‘tax’ on “Cadillac Health Care Plan’ caps the total amount employers have to pay for health plans for any ‘full-time’ employees.
The host on WHP Radio (Harrisburg-R.J. Harris) in the morning thinks one reason Trump is so popular is because Americans who used to have better jobs now have to work less favorable ones and know things are worse. They look to Trump who promises a better stronger America with ‘jobs’.
His main concern is income, but benefits also are cut and hours in many of these ‘jobs’ older Americans and younger Americans are now forced into, because that’s what’s available.
I have children young and eligible for the workforce and I see what they are up against.
It didn’t used to be that way with health benefits, they were available for part-timers.
Obamacare relieves employers of healthcare costs and in that respect it is clearly like the single payer systems in Canada and Europe, although it doesn’t go all the way.
That could come down the line....