Obamacare 'fix' affirms Obama as absolute dictator with power to change laws as he pleases

Friday, November 15, 2013 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: Obamacare fix, absolute power, dictator

(NaturalNews) In a desperate bid to save the rapidly collapsing Obamacare socialized medicine program, President Obama announced a "fix" yesterday that would "allow" health insurance companies to avoid cancelling whatever plans haven't already been cancelled due to Obamacare itself.

In doing so, Obama effectively declares himselfabsolute dictator over all laws across the country, assuming the power to enforce, ignore or alter laws at he pleases.

The problem with this is that such powers do not exist in the Office of the President. Like everything else surrounding Obamacare, Obama himself is simply inventing new powers as he goes along and hoping no one will question his assumed (illegal) authority.

"The unexpected compromise was announced amid growing revolt within Mr. Obama's own party over his broken promise that Americans who liked their insurance could keep it. But it sparked another backlash as some legal scholars questioned whether the president had the authority to create the loophole," reports the Washington Times.

It also, by the way, thrust the insurance industry into a state of chaos where insurance companies now have no idea what's going to be "law" tomorrow, next month or next year. Apparently Obama can simply change his mind at any time and decide that insurance companies are suddenly engaged in mass criminal activities which can then be prosecuted under the law as it is written.

Beware of presidents who claim absolute power over Congress

This is how Hitler rose to power, of course. It's how every tyrant throughout history got his start. It's also precisely what the United States Constitution prohibits in Article II, Section 3, where the language demands that the President "take care that laws be faithfully executed."

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say any President can simply choose to selectively ignore laws passed by Congress. Thus, Obama's new "fix" is blatantly illegal from the start.

Even if it were legal under the U.S. Constitution, it is clearly discriminatory, allowing the White House to essentially decide which insurance companies "get" to be ignored by the law and which companies will be prosecuted for "illegally" keeping policies in place that violate the Affordable Care Act as written. This only creates yet more centralization of power in the White House, giving them the tools to silence dissent among insurance companies by wielding prosecutorial discretion as a political weapon.

Obama unleashes economic despair and market chaos on America

The health insurance industry is now suffering from a case of regulatory whiplash. Obama's enforcement of federal law seems to change with the direction of the wind, and his highly irresponsible, immature actions are causing extreme market destabilization.

At this point, insurance companies have no idea what to believe. Nor do consumers who are shopping for plans. Healthcare.gov remains in a disastrous state and even though Obama has now announced his unconstitutional "fix" for people to keep their health care plans, there exists no government-legalized mechanism for insurance companies to reinstate policies already cancelled!

Thus, all the policies already cancelled are dead and gone forever. So it's not even clear how Obama's so-called "fix" helps anyone at all.

Like everything else in the Obama administration, this "fix" is nothing more than deceptive smooth talking to gloss over a problem and promote the delusion that everything is working just fine.

Obama's campaign promise of "hope and change" has become a joke. Sometimes hope is little more than false hope pretending to be real. And sometimes, the most charming, slick talking salesman is actually a con artist. Kevin Trudeau is in prison right now for lying about a weight loss book. Obama lied to the whole country about a far more serious issue, and he gets rewarded with even more power in his unconstitutional effort to "fix" the very problem he caused in the first place.

Analysis: 52 million Americans to lose health insurance due to Obamacare insanity

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes Tags: Obamacare, health insurance, 52 million Americans

(NaturalNews) President Obama's repeated lie that Americans who liked their insurance plans could keep them under Obamacare is turning out to not be the biggest lie of all regarding the law.

We now not only know that Obama lied about coverage but have also learned that the president and his staff knew in 2010 that far more than just 5 percent of private insurance buyers are likely to lose their plans as well.

As reported by McClatchy DC:

[A]dvisers did say in 2010 that there were large caveats and that anyone whose insurance plan changed would lose the promised protection of being able to keep existing plans. And a report in 2010 said that as many as 69 percent of certain employer-based insurance plans would lose that protection, meaning as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans. Another 11 million who bought their own insurance also could lose their plans. Combined, as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans.

A report in Forbes put the number higher: 93 million.

Employer plans to be affected too

Caught in his web of deceit, Obama apologized during an NBC News interview last week: "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this."

But it's too little, and far too late. The damage is already being done, no matter how Obama tries to shift the narrative. Not only that, the lies are too great for many Americans to simply forgive and forget.

Americans remember that Obama worked hard - in perpetual campaign mode - to sell his healthcare law beginning in 2008. And to win support, he had to lie - repeatedly - to the majority of Americans who already had health insurance by promising they would be able to keep what they had.

"The key was that millions of plans would be 'grandfathered' in the new law, thus protected from any new requirements," McClatchy reported.

So many lies, so little time

Honest analysts for years warned, however, that according to the language of the law - language that many in Congress admitted they never read - there was no way most who liked their plans could keep them: [www.factcheck.org].

And, after Obamacare's official Oct. 1 roll-out, millions of Americans began receiving notices from their insurance companies that, no, they wouldn't get to keep their plans after all - because they did not comply with minimum coverage requirements demanded by Obamacare.

Changing course, Obama has since taken to insisting that the loss problem is only limited to a small number of people who buy their own plans.

"We're talking about 5 percent of the population who are in what's called the individual market. They're out there buying health insurance on their own," he told NBC News.

Well, that's not true.

A closer look at the number of people who actually have changing plans, or whose plans are going to change - including employer-provided plans - could be somewhere between 34 and 53 million people.

McClatchy reports that administration officials won't say how many employer-sponsored plans are going to be affected.

Again, though, it wasn't as if these losses weren't foreseen.

"If health plans significantly raise co-payments or deductibles or significantly reduce (them) . . . they'll lose their grandfather status and their customers will get the same full set of consumer protections as new plans," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at a June 15, 2010, news conference, as quoted by McClatchy.

What revelations will the next round of exposed lies bring? It's hard to say, but what millions of Americans now know is this: The president and his minions duped them into supporting a top-down, Big Government law that is destroying one of the most intimate of rights - the right to make their own healthcare decisions.

Sources:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com

http://www.factcheck.org

http://www.forbes.com

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Obama lying 23 times in a row about 'keeping your health care plan' New York Magazine, CNBC, Wall Street Journal

See video compilation of Obama lying 23 times in a row about 'keeping your health care plan'

Sunday, November 10, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes

Tags: video compilation, Obama lying, health care plans(NaturalNews) The disaster known as Obamacare continues to wreak havoc on America by the day, as millions discover that their president repeatedly lied to them about what the law would and would not do.

Obama, during his 2008 campaign and during his "campaign" to sell his signature health plan to the country, said early and often that, no matter what, Americans would be able to a) keep their current health insurance plans, and b) keep their current doctor.

As it turns out, thanks to Obamacare's new minimum coverage requirements, health insurance companies by the scores are being forced to cancel millions of current policies, because they don't comply with the law.

Hence, 'no, you can't keep your current plan after all.'

Losing your coverage? Well, heck - just 'shop around'

As reported by Breitbart News:

New York Magazine put together a supercut of 23 instances over a few years where, without qualification or even a hint of qualification, President Obama reassured every American that if "you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your private health insurance plan." It should be noted that as recently as 2012, during his re-election campaign, Obama was still making a false promise that he likely repeated hundreds of times since 2009.

That video is here.

Just recently, under pressure for lying to Americans, Obama gave new advice for those who are losing their coverage: "Shop around."

"So if you're getting one of these letters, just shop around in the new marketplace. That's what it's for," he said during a speech in Boston (does this president ever stay in Washington and work?). "Because of the tax credits that we are offering, and the competition between insurers, most people are going to be able to get better, comprehensive healthcare plans for the same price or even cheaper than projected."

Ah, yes. Price. That's another lie. Most plans that Americans are having to sign up for now are more expensive - again, because of the minimum coverage requirements demanded by the law.

As reported by CNBC:

The fact that many current health-care plans do not offer all the benefits required under Obamacare means that many premiums are likely to jump dramatically, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told CNBC.

Bertolini, appearing on... "Closing Bell," said that most Americans with current plans are below the 60 percent essential Affordable Care Act benefit requirement, and individual plan participants will have to pay a minimum of a 20 percent increase to upgrade, he said. 

"Aetna alone will pass through to its customers over $1 billion in taxes and fees associated with the Affordable Care Act that need to go into the pricing," he told the program.

Throwing cancer patients off their plans

It's not just their plans they are losing. Americans in droves are also losing their doctors - another promise broken by the president.

That was summed up rather dramatically in The Wall Street Journal by cancer patient Edie Littlefield Sundby, who wrote that, because of Obamacare, she was losing her plan, her doctor and, she worried, perhaps her life [http://online.wsj.com].

She wrote:

My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.

Only a sick, evil, twisted and soulless individual would support and sign a law that does things like this to people - all under the lie of "compassion."

Sources:

http://www.breitbart.com

http://www.foxnews.com

http://hotair.com

http://online.wsj.com

Is Obamacare the 1st stage or the 10th stage of the COLLAPSE! If you don't want to play ball then our customer won't go to you!

Another Obamacare surprise: Major hospitals all across the country not included under new insurance plans Friday, November 08, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer Tags: Obamacare, hospitals, insurance plans

(NaturalNews) As if the millions of Americans set to losetheir existing health insurance coverage as a result of Obamacare was not bad enough, a recent survey by Watchdog.org has found that many top hospitals across the nation will no longer be accessible to the average person with a new "eligible" plan. In fact, many major hospitals are being excluded from Obamacare coverage altogether, which means that millions of previously covered individuals will have to settle for subpar care at other "in-network" facilities.

Based on the results of the survey, most of the nation's top hospitals, including renowned facilities like Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will only be accepting insurance from one or two companies included as part of Obamacare. This means that all the other insurance plans offered on the Obamacare exchanges will be ineligible, and many patients will be required to go to other facilities, even if their previous insurance plans were accepted by these same hospitals.

"Americans who sign up for Obamacare will be getting a big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may have been previously covered under their personal policies," explains U.S. News & World Report about the report's findings. "Most of the top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating under Obamacare."

Included in the survey were 18 revered medical centers across the country, as ranked by U.S. News for 2013-2014. Investigators contacted each of these hospitals to inquire about their contracts with insurance companies, how plans would be handled under Obamacare and who would be covered. They found that almost every hospital would not be accepting the vast majority of insurance plans offered under Obamacare, because the carriers are considered "out of network."

"This doesn't surprise me," Gail Wilensky, a Medicare advisor for the second Bush administration and senior fellow for Project HOPE, is quoted as saying to U.S. News. "There has been an incredible amount of focus on the premium cost and subsidy, and precious little focus on what you get for your money."

Obamacare exchanges fail to explain which hospitals are included as 'in-network'

Much of the reason for this oversight is due to the fact that public information about which Obamacare insurance carriers will be considered eligible at various hospitals has been scarce. Some hospitals, it turns out, still do not even know themselves which plans will be accepted, let alone members of the general public having access to this information. In other words, there is major turmoil on the horizon for patients who try to use their ineligible insurance coverage at these hospitals.

"In many cases, consumers are shopping blind when it comes to what doctors and hospitals are included in their Obamacare exchange plans," says Josh Archambault, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability, a think-tank group. "These patients will be in for a rude awakening once they need care, and get stuck with a big bill for going out-of-network without realizing it."

However, politicians, government workers, union members and other "insiders" excluded from Obamacare will presumably still have access to these hospitals, which means that they will receive the highest quality care while everyone else suffers on the lower tier. This, of course, was most likely the plan all along with Obamacare -- the elite will continue to have access to high-quality healthcare, while everyone else is forced to accept poor-quality, rationed "care."

"It is the insurance companies [that] are excluding [people] from Obamacare plans just to avoid big cost increases and sticker shock on the exchanges," writes one U.S. News commenter, highlighting how Obamacare is actually eliminating, not improving, public access to high-quality health insurance. "Providers are not opting out; insurance companies are cutting hospitals out, to cut costs."

Sources for this article include:

http://watchdog.org

http://health.usnews.com

http://www.newsmax.com

Warning: Obamacare is actually a self-incrimination surveillance program designed to ensnare the American people in a devil's contract

Warning: Enrolling in Obamacare allows government to link your IP address with your name, social security number, bank accounts and web surfing habits

Thursday, October 10, 2013 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: Obamacare, private details, Trojan Horse

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042427_Obamacare_private_details_Trojan_Horse.html#ixzz2hKrThxab

(NaturalNews) We have already established that Healthcare.gov is not a functioning database application that allows people to shop for competing health plans. It is actually a government-run Trojan Horse that suckers people into creating accounts where they hand over:

• Name and address
• Email address and password
• Social security number
• Private bank account details
• Employer details and other information

During the enrollment process, your computer also hands over your IP address which is then tied to your social security number.

This IP address is then handed over to the NSA thanks to its new mega-black-hole data center in Utah, where your IP is cross-referenced with all website visits, including:

• "Anti-government" websites
• Porn sites
• Gambling sites
• File sharing sites
• "Terrorism" support sites
• Encryption service sites like Hushmail
• Chat rooms, message boards and more

Armed with this information, the NSA can then link your seemingly-anonymous online chats, comments and posts with your social security number. Linguistic algorithms can "score" your online posts to create red flags that call for additional investigations of anyone using words like "liberty" or "patriot."

This information can then be turned over to law enforcement, as is found in the fine print of the Maryland Obamacare exchange, which states:

...we may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities.

Thus, by enrolling in Obamacare, you are voluntarily surveilling yourself and handing over the data to the government while also AGREEING to terms of self-incrimination.

Ponder the implications of this for a moment...

Obamacare is actually a self-incrimination surveillance program designed to ensnare the American people in a devil's contract

Obamacare is the meta-level con of tricking Americans into thinking they're signing up for free health insurance when, in reality, the website primarily exists to scrape personal financial details, passwords, emails and social security numbers from Americans who will later be targeted by the government itself.

All the emails registered with Healthcare.gov, for example, will likely be used by the Obama administration to spam people with political propaganda or contrived "terror alerts" that use fear to concentrate more power in the hands of government.

All the financial data will be turned over to the IRS for criminal investigations of Americans who are suspected of under-reporting their incomes (or supporting "patriot" groups with financial donations).

All the passwords used on Healthcare.gov will be turned over to the NSA and matched up with individual IP addresses so that NSA operatives can hack into private bank accounts, encrypted email accounts and other private data, based on the assumption that most users use identical passwords across all the websites they commonly access. (A person's password under Obamacare probably has a 50% chance of also working for their online banking. And since the NSA has your social security number, it's a no-brainer to match up your online surfing habits with your phone number, home address, investment holdings, tax returns, international travel history and so on.)

In essence, Obamacare allows the government to gather a goldmine of private data that can be exploited to target, punish, incriminate, blackmail or steal from any desired target.

As this is a federal government that believes it now has total power to do anything it wants without limit, there are no boundaries of what it might do with this data. Remember, Obama is the president who literally maintains "kill lists" of Americans to have terminated. This is openly admitted and confirmed. The Obama administration also believes it can bypass Congress and simply create new law by executive order, concentrating all power into its own hands with no regard for the separation of power upon which this nation was founded.

As is common with tyrants, the Obama administration truly believes the People have no right to privacy, no right to due process, no right to representation in government and no right to determine your own engagement in commerce. This is why Obama is playing such hardball to shove Obamacare down everybody's throats: the government desperately needs to gather all this surveillance data so that it can leverage it to blackmail members of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate, the House, and even federal judges. Blackmail is essential to maintaining power in a corrupt society. And Healthcare.gov is the portal for scraping passwords, IP addresses and even financial details from anyone gullible enough to actually hand this over to government (i.e. democrats).

As far as I'm concerned, the IRS can fine me all they want. I'm never voluntarily enrolling in Obamacare, even if you put a gun to my head like Obama is doing to the entire nation right now with this insane, contrived government shutdown that treats our own veterans like dirt.

All dignity is now gone from the Obama administration. Zero credibility remains. The government has all but openly declared war on the People and is actively using tricks like Healthcare.gov to coerce people into incriminating themselves. The Obama administration is out of control and a grave danger to society. It must be lawfully stopped from damaging America any further.

Now is the time to seriously discuss impeachment, not just of the President but of every U.S. Senator and House member who voted for this unconstitutional, "Trojan Horse" health care system that's destroying America's economy and wasting an unprecedented amount of time, money and effort. End Obamacare now and restore dignity and justice to America.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042427_Obamacare_private_details_Trojan_Horse.html#ixzz2hKrQinyA

What privacy? Obamacare employee accidentally emails 2,400 social security numbers to an insurance broker

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: Obamacare employee, accidental email, social security numbers


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042099_Obamacare_employee_accidental_email_social_security_numbers.html#ixzz2fFtxM4Ik

(NaturalNews) Serial violations of Americans' Fourth Amendment protections under the Bill of Rights are occurring so frequently these days, you'd think it was part of the hiring process for the federal government: If you can't invade everyone's privacy with impunity, you can't work for Uncle Sam. This is especially true when it comes to Obamacare, as demonstrated by a "mistake" made this past week regarding the "accidental" disclosure of thousands of Social Security numbers.

According to the Minnesota Star-Tribune newspaper:

A MNsure employee accidentally sent an e-mail file to an Apple Valley insurance broker's office on Thursday that contained Social Security numbers, names, business addresses and other identifying information on more than 2,400 insurance agents.

An official at MNsure, the state's new online health insurance exchange, acknowledged it had mishandled private data. A MNsure security manager called the broker, Jim Koester, and walked him and his assistant through a process of deleting the file from their computer hard drives.

The systems are ripe for privacy violations and data mining

Koester told the paper that he complied, of course, but that the incident left him understandably concerned.

"The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was," he said. "What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It's scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?"

In a word, they can't.

MNsure officials quickly brushed over the incident, saying that it was resolved and that it was the first security breach of its database. Nevertheless, the paper correctly noted that the incident stokes concerns among critics who have regularly pushed the state for years over privacy concerns that have arisen from the creation of online-based health insurance exchanges.

Such marketplaces are a key element of Obamacare. Millions of Americans are being pushed into the exchanges, which are supposed to be up and running - properly - by October 1.

Per the Star-Tribune:

Users of the exchange will need to provide sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, that will be sent to a federal hub to verify such things as citizenship and household income. This information will determine whether consumers using MNsure qualify for public health programs or tax credits that will lower the cost of premiums.

That federal hub is concerning privacy advocates as well, especially since there is less than three weeks until these exchanges go "live" and they have yet to be tested thoroughly, to guard against just such "accidents" as disclosure of personal data.

But even if state-level exchanges and the federal hub remain secure from outside hacking - which is dubious, at best - all of the personal data that is passing through the hub is no doubt going to be data-mined by countless federal agencies and bureaus, to be used later in negative ways that are as yet unknown or undisclosed.

'The gorilla in the room...'

"The people who believe in this are so driven that there's a subcontext of 'Just let us do our job and get as many people signed up as possible, and we'll pick up the debris later,'" Steve Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor who specializes in health IT issues, told the paper.

He testified recently on Capitol Hill that caution should be utilized in pushing the federal hub online before it's ready.

Working with digital data "is a convenient and simple convention to move things along," Parente said. "But the downside is that it can have unintended consequences. It takes time to parse and curate and edit. You can't do that if you're in a rush."

Koester sees the trouble clearly.

"[T]he gorilla in the room is that they sent me something that's not even encrypted. It's unsecured, on an Excel spreadsheet - which is using outdated technology to transfer that information in the first place. They've got to realize they have a huge problem," he said.

Sources:

http://www.weeklystandard.com

http://www.startribune.com

http://nationalreview.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042099_Obamacare_employee_accidental_email_social_security_numbers.html#ixzz2fFsem06E

Labor union bosses now freaking out over Obamacare law they pushed for: Full repeal on the way?

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: labor unions, Obamacare, full repeal

(NaturalNews) Many of the very same union heads who aggressively pushed for its illegal passage are now decrying the tenets of the so-called Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, as they finally wake up to the fact that they were deceitfully sold a bill of goods. The presidents of at least four major American union groups have signed on to calls for the egregious mandate to either be "fixed" or repealed, as it is now apparent that Obamacare in its current form threatens to eliminate the last remaining vestiges of an American middle class.

Speaking on behalf of his union's 500,000-or-so members, Laborers' International Union of North America president Terry O'Sullivan, for instance, had many a fuming word to say against Obamacare at the recent 2013 annual convention of the AFL-CIO, a federation of labor organizations that represents 57 unions and more than 12 million workers. During his speech, O'Sullivan lamented that Obamacare will destroy union workers' health insurance plans entirely if not "corrected" according to union terms.

"If the 'Affordable Care Act' is not fixed, and it destroys the health and welfare funds that we have all fought for and stand for, then I believe it needs to be repealed," emphasized O'Sullivan during a firm rebuke of the crafty and malicious government scheme. "We can't have the unintended consequences for the proud men and women that we represent to be collateral damage in the healthcare fight in this country."

Other union presidents are apparently in agreement, including Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa; United Food and Commercial Workers president Joseph Hansen; and UNITE HERE president D. Taylor. Each of these men signed a joint open letter to Democrat Senators Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, chiding them for breaking their promise to protect union health insurance plans. This comes as theObama administration denies requests to provide insurance exemptions for union members.

"Since the ACA was enacted, we have been bringing our deep concerns to the Administration, seeking reasonable regulatory interpretations to the statute that would help prevent the destruction of non-profit health plans," reads the scathing letter. "When you and the President sought our support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat."

Both Republicans and Democrats now wide awake to Obamacare deception

The foolishness of trusting Reid, Pelosi and the rest of the traitors in Congress that endorsed Obamacare is finally on display for the world to see. It should have been obvious from the start that Obamacare would not end up being the amazing health care reform that many claimed it would be -- most of Congress admittedly never even read it, as you may recall, insisting that it had to first be passed in order for Congress to learn what it would actually entail.

Now, we can plainly see exactly what Obamacare is all about: deceit and lies. And now, the workers unions that set up phone banks and walked precincts to garner support for the unconstitutional nightmare are learning the truth, albeit a day late and a buck short. The silver lining in all this, of course, is that there is now more momentum than ever to see Obamacare completely repealed, which will be beneficial to the interests of everyone, not just union workers.

"The very complaints union leaders are bringing to the table now about Obamacare are the same warnings conservatives and businesses gave before the legislation was signed into law in 2010," writes Katie Pavlich for TownHall.com. "Hopefully it won't be long before unions are calling for full repeal."

Sources for this article include:

http://www.breitbart.com

http://townhall.com

http://blogs.wsj.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042106_labor_unions_Obamacare_full_repeal.html#ixzz2fFryPJb2

Trader Joe's strips all part-time workers of health care in yet another Obamacare rollout fiasco

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: Trader Joe''s, part-time workers, Obamacare


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042110_Trader_Joes_part-time_workers_Obamacare.html#ixzz2fFrLpJrJ

(NaturalNews) The closer we get to the "official" roll-out of Obamacare, the more we are finding out, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, what's in the law.

Some of the worst predictions about it have already come true. Premiums for millions of Americans will not go down, but will go up instead. Many won't be able to keep their doctors. Millions still won't have coverage. And the law is severely affecting employment, in terms of stunting company expansion and reducing the number of hours employees are getting.

Per Breitbart News:

Because ObamaCare is nothing more than a wealth redistribution policy that forces the productive to pay for the non-productives' Cadillac health plans (which include birth control), costs are about to explode. As a result, employers are desperate to cut the burden of their health care costs, which is why our economy is hardly creating any full-time jobs, and the part-time employees at Trader Joe's just lost their health insurance benefits.

Adds The Huffington Post:

After extending health care coverage to many of its part-time employees for years, Trader Joe's has told workers who log fewer than 30 hours a week that they will need to find insurance on the Obamacare exchanges next year, according to a confidential memo from the grocer's chief executive.

Like other companies, Trader Joe's will dump employees onto the public dole

The full weight of the law has yet to kick in, but already employers are bracing for its impact. They know, for instance, that they will be on the hook for tens of thousands - in some cases hundreds of thousands - of dollars' worth of additional health care coverage costs for their full-time staff, so to head off an expense that many small-to-mid-sized business can't afford, they have no choice but to reduce employment and cut back on hiring.

Trader Joe's is only the most recent corporation to make the decision.

In a memo to staff dated August 30, Dan Bane, the company's CEO, said Trader Joe's will issue a $500 check to part-timers in January, to "help guide them toward finding a new plan under the Affordable Care Act," HuffPo reported. He added that the company still plans to continue providing health insurance coverage to employees who work an average of 30 or more hours each week.

Under the law, companies with 50 or more employees must offer health insurance coverage to full-time staffers, though Obama has unilaterally - and unconstitutionally - postponed that so-called "employer mandate" for a year.

Where the company once could offer health coverage, now it can't - thanks to Obamacare

One thing that once worked in Trader Joe's favor, at least with the political left: The company once earned kudos for offering health, dental and vision plans to its part-time employees, which was rare for an industry that does not offer huge pay and benefits. But now that lower-wage workers will be eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health insurance in 2014, the company's management team must have figured out that offering coverage to part-timers who work less than 18 hours was going to be too expensive.

"Depending on income you may earn outside of Trader Joe's," as in another job, "we believe that with the $500 from Trader Joe's and the tax credits available under the ACA, many of you should be able to obtain health care coverage at very little if any net cost to you," Bane wrote in the memo.

"The company told HuffPost it would not confirm or deny the existence of the memo," the website reported.

In a statement, a spokeswoman said, 'We have made some changes to our healthcare coverage that we believe will be a benefit to all Crew Members working in our stores. We are committed to providing all our Crew Members with benefits that are among the best in our industry."

Sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

http://www.breitbart.com

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