Republicans in the House might not win their fight to defund or delay ObamaCare. But an onslaught of new evidence is highlighting one big reason they think the program needs to be redone: It’s hurting American workers.
Take Trader Joe’s. For years, the company provided part-time workers with private health-care coverage — just the sort of thing that should be encouraged, right?
Unfortunately, ObamaCare just put an end to that.
The company has just announced that workers who average less than 30 hours per week will have to find a plan from the Affordable Care Act exchanges. While Trader Joe’s claims some workers will be better off this way, it acknowledges that others might not be.
Or take Forever 21. Last month, a leaked memo stated that some of its full-time, non-management positions would be changed to part-time. The company denied ObamaCare was the reason, but the part-timers were to be limited to 29.5 hours per week, just under ObamaCare’s 30-hour threshold for mandatory employer-provided health insurance. So draw your own conclusions.
Even a California call center — set up, ironically, to answer ObamaCare questions — shifted some full-time jobs to part-time, no doubt to avoid having to provide health care.
So the next time professional left-wingers stage one of their walkouts aimed at retailers or restaurants, it might be worth asking them: Why not join the Republicans and protest against the real enemy of the American worker — ObamaCare?