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....
Before and after the ACA employers were/are free to offer health insurance to part time workers, or not.
I agree completely that employers are working hard to cut benefits and shift more of the cost and responsibility to the employees, but this has been a trend since long before Obama. Consider the demise of the company pension and the rise of defined contribution plans like 401(k)s.
If anything the ACA tries to reverse this somewhat by for the first time requiring larger companies to provide insurance. I think this approach has big problems but it is trying to address the problem of declining benefits for employees