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How Obamacare Could Unlock Job Opportunities
New York Times ^ | February 20, 2014 | By SHAILA DEWAN

Posted on 02/23/2014 7:43:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exterminate all liberals and you’ll end welfare, obamacare, social security, medicaid, medicare, EPA, IRS, NEA, DOA, FCC and large variety of others, We’d be oil independent, have a strong military and be respected in the world once again, have plenty of jobs, secure borders with an immigration plan that works, men will be men, we’ll have winners and losers and the losers will work harder, schools will teach real history and what it takes to get ahead in life and the list goes on.

Find a cure for liberalism and America will prosper.


21 posted on 02/23/2014 8:05:51 AM PST by maddog55
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To: sitetest

Remy: Working 9 to 5 (Obamacare Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkxVXB37EU

Funny remake of ‘Nine to Five’ song spurred by Obamacare

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/22/funny-remake-of-nine-to-five-song-spurred-by-obamacare-102359


22 posted on 02/23/2014 8:06:15 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: DJ MacWoW
Unemployment = Funemployment.

CC

23 posted on 02/23/2014 8:07:09 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Regardless of the birdcage-liner source, there are SOME aspects of Obamacare that are beneficial to the labor force. One of them involves “job lock” and unhireability - that is, that once a person becomes ill, they can’t ever change jobs; and, that people who were sick but who no longer are become unhireable. I have been fortunate so far (NOT to be confused with the present-day version of “fortunate”) that this hasn’t happened to me, but I work or have worked with people in this situation. They are “invisible”, but there are many. Republicans who actually want to run on getting back to exactly the way things were ignore them at their peril.


24 posted on 02/23/2014 8:17:30 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: mort56

That’s 2.5 million people going from the tax payer rolls to the welfare rolls.

CC


25 posted on 02/23/2014 8:18:59 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I could see new businesses springing up for medical tourism. Obamacare denying you a knee replacement..make a reservation for a trip to India to have your knee replaced at a state of the art facility by US trained doctors for a reasonable cost. Need cancer treatment...book a trip to the Caribbean and a stay at the Mayo Clinic’s newest facility.


26 posted on 02/23/2014 8:19:05 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: The Antiyuppie

Good points.

Having “health care” tied to employment for many folks is a bad artifact of WW2 wage controls. Has caused many problems.


27 posted on 02/23/2014 8:21:20 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: The Great RJ

Yes...that is happening...and will increase


28 posted on 02/23/2014 8:34:35 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I plan to start a consulting business in which I will consult with the newly unemployed to advise them how to spend all their newly found, liberating free time in optimal ways. Spend time with the family? Take vacations? Engage in outdoor activities? The possibilities are boundless. So boundless that some people might be at a loss to decide what would be best. And therein lies opportunity!


29 posted on 02/23/2014 8:37:13 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
…from an economics perspective…

Shaila Dewan, B.A., Rice University in 1993.

I'm sure that she had intensive training in economics in her BA program.

What libs know about economics wouldn't even fill a thimble.

30 posted on 02/23/2014 8:46:55 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Gaffer

What would you expect from somebody whose mother couldn’t even spell “Sheila”? ;-)


31 posted on 02/23/2014 9:04:40 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Rice is another university that has become increasingly liberal. Very sad.


32 posted on 02/23/2014 9:10:21 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: The Antiyuppie; nascarnation

Yes, but do you really think employers are going to hire people with chronic conditions, especially in this economy? Government has completely distorted the labor market so that “fixing” one thing only creates bigger problems.

Unfortunately, it would take getting back to the way things were before government put its heavy hand on the economy, and that’s too far back to even contemplate. We are stuck in a royal mess now.


33 posted on 02/23/2014 9:14:15 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: nascarnation
Having “health care” tied to employment for many folks is a bad artifact of WW2 wage controls.

Thank you! The unintended consequences of governmental actions strike again.

Few ever question the logic of having your boss provide your health care - a concept so ridiculous that it could only be the result of governmental intrusion.

34 posted on 02/23/2014 9:28:31 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Politics are just the rules - Power is the game!)
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To: Mr. K
More from the NYT economic genius:

"Our economy needs risk-takers in order to grow. That’s why the government creates programs to mitigate risk. For example, insuring student loans softens the risk of investing in an education. The bankruptcy system lessens the risk of starting a business".

35 posted on 02/23/2014 9:39:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Blowing smoke up our a$$es for over 33 years.


36 posted on 02/23/2014 9:56:12 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: All

Yea that’s a good thing we can all sit around and eat our Ramien noodles and be happy happy!


37 posted on 02/23/2014 10:02:13 AM PST by DocJhn
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To: Pining_4_TX

“Yes, but do you really think employers are going to hire people with chronic conditions, especially in this economy? “

Being a cancer survivor and “cured” for 20 years is not a “chronic condition”.


38 posted on 02/23/2014 10:08:00 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Pining_4_TX

“Yes, but do you really think employers are going to hire people with chronic conditions, especially in this economy? “

Being a cancer survivor and “cured” for 20 years is not a “chronic condition”.


39 posted on 02/23/2014 10:08:00 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: coloradan

“I plan to start a consulting business in which I will consult with the newly unemployed to advise them how to spend all their newly found, liberating free time in optimal ways. Spend time with the family?”

A growth industry if ever I saw one. Establish it, and then franchise it.


40 posted on 02/23/2014 10:09:23 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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