Minimum wage workers like the ones who work at fast food restaurants and retail stores will benefit because they will no longer have to choose between medical coverage through Medicaid and working (which disqualifies many from Medicaid without earning them enough to buy individual medical insurance, since few retail jobs offer medical coverage). For instance, a two-income couple that works for minimum wage at fast food restaurants will earn $21,866 if both average 29 hours a week 52 weeks a year. They earn too much to be eligible for Medicaid, but too little to buy medical insurance, which comes out to between $5K to $7K a year. Under Obamacare, they pay $759 a year, and the Federal government (aka budget aka taxpayers, eventually) makes up the $4311 difference The problem, of course, is the hit to the federal budget. If 50m people are subsidized for this amount annually, the cost is $100b a year or more, depending on how high premiums get.
Why in the world would they be content with each of them working a part time job? Let’s make them more contented, so they will be happy slaves on the liberal plantation.
If one of them got a full time job they could afford better, as they could if one of them, heaven forbid, also worked two jobs.
They are only better off in the sense that they have medical care paid for by money taken from others at the point of a gun. But they are still slaves.