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Firms have questions about health care law
The Dalton Georgia Daily Citizen ^ | June 21, 2013 | Charles Oliver

Posted on 06/21/2013 7:36:03 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, runs some 2,600 pages. But the regulations required to implement it dwarf that law.

“Some of the estimates I’ve heard is that it will require one million pages of regulations,” said Al Ertel, chief operating officer of Alliant Health Plans, a Dalton-based not-for-profit provider of health insurance.

Ertel conducted a workshop on the law on Thursday at the Dalton Golf & Country Club. The Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce hosted the event.

Ertel noted that it took federal regulators almost 20 pages just to define a full-time employee for the purposes of the law. The law considers anyone working at least 30 hours a week as a full-time employee. But employers will also have to add up the total hours worked by part-time employees who work less than 30 hours each week and divide them by 30 and count that number as full-time employees under the law, he noted.

(Excerpt) Read more at daltondailycitizen.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: business; economy; insurance; obamacare
Less than six months to go and this thing is still being worked out.
1 posted on 06/21/2013 7:36:03 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: GrootheWanderer

If the Rats were smart they would delay the whole thing until after midterm elections because voters are dumb.


2 posted on 06/21/2013 7:40:52 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: GrootheWanderer

Doesn’t everybody know that corporations have deep pockets? They should have no questions about any of this. The intention was that they would not change hiring and employment practices based on this law. They are supposed to keep existing patterns in place, and, they are supposed to pay the bill and STFU, according to the liberals. Just shut up and pay the bill.


3 posted on 06/21/2013 7:45:38 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: GrootheWanderer

"Just shut up, do as you're told, and we'll get along just fine!"


4 posted on 06/21/2013 7:48:04 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: GrootheWanderer

All we need to know about this crap law is that the racist obuma plans to murder millions of white people with his death panels. It’s not ovens, but it’s just as effective.

And the federal bureaucrat pigs, including the mercenary secret service traitors, are allowing it to happen.


5 posted on 06/21/2013 7:48:17 PM PDT by sergeantdave (No, I don't have links for everything I post)
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I simply loathe SCOTUS John Roberts.


6 posted on 06/21/2013 7:51:37 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: GrootheWanderer
But employers will also have to add up the total hours worked by part-time employees who work less than 30 hours each week and divide them by 30 and count that number as full-time employees under the law

in other words it depends on what the definition of the number 30 is...

7 posted on 06/21/2013 8:01:42 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Now our entire lives will revolve around health care.

Aren't we special?

8 posted on 06/21/2013 8:08:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
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To: Chode
in other words it depends on what the definition of the number 30 is..

Maybe it's in Hexadecimal or some such base.....

9 posted on 06/21/2013 8:11:28 PM PDT by spokeshave (ec)
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To: spokeshave
no doubt, kinda like Calvin Ball where there are no rules, and the rules change as the game progresses...
10 posted on 06/21/2013 8:23:07 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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