Local Governments Nationwide Cut Hours To Avoid Obamacare

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Local Governments Nationwide Cut Hours To Avoid Obamacare

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When Regal Entertainment Group (RGC) in April blamed ObamaCare for the fact that it was cutting some of its workers' hours, backers of the law mounted a furious backlash against the theater chain, among other things filling its Facebook page with boycott threats.

"Greed and selfishness make me sick," one of them said.

Darden Restaurants (DRI) felt this intense heat last year after suggesting it might shift to more part-time work to minimize the cost of the law's mandate that companies offer coverage to all their full-time workers. CEO Clarence Otis even blamed its lowered outlook for 2013 in part on "recent negative media coverage" over "how we might accommodate health care reform."

Yet while private companies are getting all this unwelcome and hostile attention, local governments across the country have been quietly doing exactly the same thing — cutting part-time hours specifically so they can skirt ObamaCare's costly employer mandate, while complaining about the law in some of the harshest terms anyone has uttered in public.

The result is that part-time government workers — many of them low-income — face pay cuts that can top $3,000 a year, and yet will still be left without employer-provided benefits.

Here is just a small sampling of local news reports about what local government officials are saying about ObamaCare, and the steps they're taking to avoid or minimize its costs.

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Re: Local Governments Nationwide Cut Hours To Avoid Obamacar

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And Yet all of the Republicans who voted against Obamacare back in 2010 in the Senate and in the House are still considered "heartless and idiotic."
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Re: Local Governments Nationwide Cut Hours To Avoid Obamacar

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Stupid Republican-originated healthcare plan!

If only there weren't so many conservative Democrats in Congress, who blocked a decent single-payer system. Instead, we're stuck with this monstrosity, whose only positive is that it's an improvement over what we had.
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