We’ll file this one under the, “well you assholes voted for this,” category of how to talk to liberals, found in chapter two of your vast right wing conspiracy operation manual. It’s starting to happen on a daily basis now, some libtard will whine and gripe about what’s happening to the cost of their health insurance, those privileged few who have been able to keep it that is, or griping about the fact that their insurance company just gave up operations in their state all together, doctors who have either quit or stopped taking on new patients, companies deciding to pay the fine rather than offering coverage, companies cutting all employee hours to part time status, or a literal bevy of other consequences which have served to lower our living standards entirely. On top of all of that of course is the small fact that every single group who acted as cheerleaders for this thing have been exempted from its ravages, at least temporarily. Here’s my answer to those whiners. “I tell them, not only did you idiots vote for this, you overtly campaigned for it. So how’s that hopety change working out for you?”
Five years later, and not one single promise made by Barack Obama and his team in regards to this sink hole of a law has come true. We should all be used to the Bamster’s promises all having fairly quick expiration dates by now, but I will never understand this phenomenon of how he has been able to escape entirely any and all accountability for the consequences of his policies. It is as if 50.1% of our population has become one giant cargo cult, and believes that those planes filled with untold wealth are just one more monument to stupidity away from beginning to arrive in huge numbers. Meanwhile, Barack Obama is touring the nation on his endless campaign claiming to be fighting against the very things he promised to accomplish, like the collapse of our electricity grid, the collapse of the insurance industry thus heralding in single payer government run health care, $4.00 per gallon gasoline, punishment of any success in the free market economy.
So, here’s the latest example. as reported in Newsmax.com.
UPS and a growing list of other big companies will end health insurance coverage of employees’ spouses this fall if they can get coverage elsewhere — an unwelcome result, at least in part, of Obamacare.
Increased medical costs, “combined with the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an affordable cost,” UPS said in a memo to employees.
A survey by consultant Towers Watson found that in 2013, 4 percent of large employers excluded spouses who also had coverage at their own workplace, and 8 percent planned to implement the restriction next year, Kaiser Health News and USA Today reported.
Wait, it gets better.
Kaiser Health News and USA Today said UPS spouses may have difficulty finding similar coverage in their own workplaces because the UPS plan is more generous than the national average.
The UPS memo, obtained by Kaiser, attributed at least part of its decision to the ACA’s research fee and a temporary fee per member. Other factors cited in the memo included the law’s ban on annual and lifetime coverage limits and its requirement to cover dependent children up to age 26, Kaiser reported.
Executives at several staffing firms told Reuters that Obamacare, which requires employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide healthcare coverage or incur penalties, was often cited in requests by their corporate customers for part-time workers. And the decision to delay the mandate until 2015 has made little difference in hiring decisions.
“Us and other people are hiring part-time because we don’t know what the costs are going to be to hire full-time,” said Steven Raz, founder of Cornerstone Search Group, an employment firm in Parsippany, N.J. “We are being cautious.”
Three out of four of the nearly 1 million job hires in the United States this year have been part-time and many of the positions are low wage, Reuters reported.
So, there you have it, UPS used to be a company that went out of its way to offer their employees the best possible health care possible, both for employees and their families. Now, they’re scaling things back to the lowest common denominator, a natural result of all Socialist policies by the way, and going the extra distance to convert former full time positions to part time ones. UPS isn’t alone in this either, as every day we are reading more and more of these announcements. But hey, President Zero is out there telling us all how the economy is starting to come around, and the 50.1% who make up the world’s dumbest cargo cult are buying the snake oil.
So, I guess that’s what’s really important here isn’t it, that you believe. I clapped like a little idiot for Tinkerbell the first time I saw Peter Pan performed at the tender age of five, and even then, I was somewhat skeptical. It struck me as odd that a fairy’s existence I had not even heard of only a few moments before would possibly depend upon my belief. but then that’s America today I guess, zero critical thought, and Marxism 101. If only we had a few more rich people to eat.
I guess my point is that when you hear the libs whining about how messed up things are, point out to them that this is their fault, and don’t let up. They got their way, and all of this is what they campaigned for.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
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