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Study: Obamacare Costing 66,000 Jobs in Illinois
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 4, 2013 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 10/05/2013 8:46:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The president’s health care law is driving down employment in his home state, according to a recent report.

Employers in Illinois are cutting worker hours to avoid costly penalties from Obamacare’s employer mandate, where employees in the lowest wage sectors are the hardest hit.

The Illinois Policy Institute studied the three employment sectors — retail, food, and merchandise– whose average hours were closest to 30 hours per week prior to the Affordable Care Act.

The institute found that all three have now dipped below 30 hours per week, the threshold for a full-time worker under the law. Average hours for these sectors had remained steadily above 30 before Obamacare was enacted.

“Since 2011, Illinois has lost the equivalent of about 66,000 jobs in these sectors through reduced work hours – more than the number of jobs added in all sectors over the past year,” the study said.

“As Obamacare is implemented, Americans are seeing it fail on the important goals of health care access and affordability,” said Naomi Lopez Bauman, director of health policy at the institute and author of the report.

“But this labor data from the president’s very own home state shows that not only will Obamacare fail to deliver its health insurance goals, it also threatens to cause further damage to Illinois’ already-fragile economy,” she said....

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; aca; bhofascism; deathpanels; democrats; illinois; jobs; obamacare; obamarecession; obamataxhike; obamataxhikes; unemployment; zerocare
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To: Henry Hnyellar

One right off the bat would be to allow purchase of plans across state lines, breaking the current monopolistic structure - both allows more choices and creates more competition and providers. This is also actual interstate commerce. Another is to allow purchase of insurance outside of company plans to be tax deductible to compete with the employer plans (and help level the playing field for those who do not have the option of employer-sponsored plans).


21 posted on 10/05/2013 10:00:24 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
So you agree with the premise that government is responsible for healthcare?

There are inequities in the system having nothing to do with a need for federal spending, but the GOP has refused to address them, while the Democrats have always been for a single payer system. By ignoring the possibility of an equitable free market solution, the GOP has made Obamacare politically inevitable. As more working people on the margins find out about the benefits of Obamacare for them, they will turn against the GOP. The question is whether this will be balanced by votes in the other direction. The Democrats have made sure that Obamacare subsidies only phase out when a household reaches the 80th percentile of household incomes. The benefits show up today. The costs will hit people making over $100K years from now, perhaps taking their marginal rates to 50%. Politically-speaking, it's becoming clear why Democrats think opposition to Obamacare is a loser for the GOP.

22 posted on 10/05/2013 10:01:46 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
One right off the bat would be to allow purchase of plans across state lines, breaking the current monopolistic structure - both allows more choices and creates more competition and providers. This is also actual interstate commerce. Another is to allow purchase of insurance outside of company plans to be tax deductible to compete with the employer plans (and help level the playing field for those who do not have the option of employer-sponsored plans).

Currently, large companies get a better rate on health care premiums - one of the few instances where price discrimination is legal in the country. The ending of that price discrimination would help individuals get coverage for a lower cost. Hospitals also discriminate on pricing against people paying cash. Insurance plans pay a fraction of the amounts quoted. A federal mandate covering that would help individuals pay their own way.

23 posted on 10/05/2013 10:07:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

No mandate necessary - remember Obamacare made private / physician-owned hospitals illegal to be built, and ones that already existed it is illegal for them to expand. These were in the works to start going up in droves - which would have created a huge alternate marketplace for cash-driven health care (in which the actual costs of procedures are also published) that would have competed with the corporate / insurance monopolistic structures (and in turn, increased overall healthcare resources). Obamacare was designed to protect, expand, and codify corporate monopolies against this kind of competition.


24 posted on 10/05/2013 10:13:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I agree healthcare is heavily meddled in. As with most things government gets involved in the costs have skyrocketed. I believe the ACA will just drive costs higher and higher. I don’t think it’s sustainable. Until they start trying to drive cost down it is going to be an awful mess. One of the biggest drivers is the jackpot legal system that drives up medical insurance and forces doctors to over protect by ordering unnecessary testing. The AMA holds a lot of responsibility here also though. I don’t blame it all on lawyers. The AMA needs to quit protecting their own and when a doctor is screwing up they need to get rid of him. They need to limit damages to actual damages and dump the punitive damages. If a doctor needs punished they need to pull his license. The patient holds some blame here too. We all demand the latest greatest treatments, newest testing and the newest wonder drugs. The scary part is now that govt has full control of healthcare they will feel compelled to deciding your diet and they will be deciding who is worthy of treatment and who isn’t.


25 posted on 10/05/2013 10:38:26 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hope all the Obama voters are enjoying their further poverty.

They earned it.


26 posted on 10/06/2013 1:13:01 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Tort reform and administrative simplification would reduce cost substantially.


27 posted on 10/06/2013 2:29:59 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Obama loves the USA like OJ loved Nicole)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The GOP has a plan - free market with tort reform and a bunch of other ways to keep lawyers and government out of it. If they come up with a “plan” to counter-offer with, we will know we are truly lost.


28 posted on 10/06/2013 4:23:38 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Repeal ObamaCair. That’s a darn good alternative.


29 posted on 10/06/2013 4:57:09 AM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Repeal ObamaCair. That’s a darn good alternative.


30 posted on 10/06/2013 4:57:10 AM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Repeal ObamaCair. That’s a darn good alternative.


31 posted on 10/06/2013 4:57:11 AM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meanwhile, the corn and beans are planted and growing wall to wall.


32 posted on 10/06/2013 5:04:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They voted for him, now they can choke on it.
Reality sometimes has to come in the form of a 2X4 smack right to the head (figuratively speaking).

So many, so SO many, heard the soundbite “Free HEalthcare” and decided gee wiz, that’s great, I’m for it! Never ONCE did they glance at what was behind it or read up on it.

This is why elections are won on soundbites..Hope and Change, etc. The low infos’ are a much bigger problem than 0bamacare.


33 posted on 10/06/2013 5:34:14 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: AlmaKing

“Isn’t having a ‘plan’ the problem?”
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I STRONGLY agree! We will have to got through a complete collapse and see if anything is left on which to build a new America because people on left and right want to see government plans. We have been planned into disaster already. It should be left to the marketplace to sort out.


34 posted on 10/06/2013 9:24:05 AM PDT by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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