The Obamacare Jobs Graveyard

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Obamacare continues to rack up impressive numbers when it comes to putting people out of work or curtailing work hours for employees. So I knew about others came as new information

Either way, you probably will not see this in the Obama loving liberal media

Keep the books open as this is probably only the beginning

Lost Jobs
Welch Allyn, a company that manufactures medical diagnostic equipment in central New York, laid off 275 employees this year, and planned on dropping roughly 10% of their workforce over the next three years.

"Health care reform mandates" are to blame for up to 400 jobs being dropped at Orlando Health.

One of the biggest medical device manufacturers in the world, Stryker confirmed 1,000 jobs were lost due to Obamacare.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center cited "the challenges of health care reform" while announcing the elimination of 950 jobs.

The medical device tax also claimed positions at Boston Scientific. The company first announced in 2011 that they would be cutting between 1,200 and 1,400 positions. Then in January of this year, they announced further layoffs for up to 1,000 employees.

Smith & Nephew, a global medical technology firm, dropped 100 employees.

A Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance office was closed, resulting in another 100 or so employees hitting the unemployment lines. The reason? Complexities in federal regulations and mandates implemented by Obamacare.

In March of 2010, medical device maker Medtronic warned that Obamacare taxes could result in a reduction of precisely 1,000 jobs. That plan became reality when the company cut 500 positions, and scheduled another 500 by the end of the fourth quarter in 2013.

Reading Hospital announced layoffs for 210 workers, and the elimination of another 181 jobs through attrition, citing federal health care reform requirements.

Abbott Laboratories announced a series of layoffs that would result in approximately 1,900 people being out of work. The company cited "U.S. health-care reform and the challenging regulatory environment” as a reason for the job cuts, then proceeded to donate money to politicians wanting to change Obamacare.

Lost Hours
Public employees in Virginia fell victim to Obamacare's rules for part-time workers. A minimum of 7,380 jobs were converted to less than 30 hours per week.

The nation's largest movie theater chain, Regal Entertainment, reduced the workweek for thousands of their employees.

Kroger, a grocery store chain, reduced the hours of their staff.

Taco Bell slashed employee hours.

As did Wendy's, and also Denny's.

An executive from White Castle pondered only hiring part-time workers in the future.

Subway chains, and Carl's Jr. stores reduced positions to part-time.

Clothing retail chain, Forever 21, conducted staffing audits which resulted in non-management positions being reduced to 29.5 hours weekly. Forever 21 has over 27,000 employees.

400 employees at the Community College of Allegheny County saw their hours reduced.

The Wall Street Journal reported that numerous universities were scaling back the number of hours worked per week by their adjunct professors, in an attempt to avoid the new Obamacare requirements.

Hours for over 100 people in the Fort Wayne Community School District in Indiana have been reduced, including substitutes and support staff.
Phone operators in Affordable Care Act call centers noted the irony in "working for a call center and trying to help people get health care" but only at a part-time rate ... in order to avoid having to provide health insurance.

Lost Coverage
Repeatedly blaming Obamacare in a staff memo, UPS announced that 15,000 employee spouses are being dropped from their health insurance coverage.

Erick Erikson reported via Twitter that he had obtained an internal memo from Delta Airlines. The memo stated that the company would have to totally revamp their health care plans, and had to eliminate a plan developed specifically for pilots due to it violating the Cadillac tax.

The University of Virginia is dropping coverage for spouses due to federal health reform costs and penalties.

The owner of Professional Finance Company indicated that he may have to drop coverage for his employee's families. The company employs 170 people.

Health insurance coverage is being reduced for school districts in Pennsylvania.

The United Methodist Church recently announced that "clergy and lay employees" would be losing their coverage.

Wegman's, who had previously provided coverage for employees that worked 20 or more hours, announced they were no longer offering health insurance to part-time workers thanks to ObamaCare.


http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/gru...-job-graveyard

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Now Bubba hits the campaign trial on behalf of Obamacare

Is Bubba giving up his health plan to take a policy at one of those Obamacare exchanges?

“Secretary of Explaining Stuff” Bill Clinton: The GOP should really help fix these ObamaCare “glitches”


As part of their wide-ranging attempt to ‘educate’ and ‘inform’ the still largely confused public about the manifold and wondrous benefits available to them via ObamaCare if only they’ll be so obliging as to sign up for it, the White House is deploying Bill “explainer in chief” Clinton to help garner some much-needed positive attention for the health care overhaul. Clinton will be making speeches on behalf of ObamaCare as part of a bunch of events the White House has planned for this fall to help raise public awareness for the newly-minted exchanges opening on October 1st, but of course, don’t blame the countless broken promises, delays, errors, and “glitches” on anything inherent in progressive, big-government policies themselves. If there are problems, it’s obviously because those spiteful Republicans are preventing Democrats’ visions from being fully realized — but besides that charming and now familiar message, the whole thing was kind of anticlimactic.

<CENTER></CENTER>Via NBC:

In a policy-heavy speech that lasted almost an hour, Clinton praised the sweeping insurance law and argued that – despite some problems inherent in the massive legislation – this new structure is better than the old health care system.
“It seems to me that the benefits of reform can’t be fully realized and the problems certainly can’t be solved unless both the supporters and the opponents of the original legislation work together to implement it and address the issues that arise any time you change a system this complex,” he said.
“There are always drafting errors, unintended consequences, unanticipated issues. We’re going to do better working together and learning together than we will trying over and over to repeal a law or rooting for reform to fail.”
Clinton, known for his stem-winding policy talks, won laughter for saying he believed the topic was important enough for a more disciplined verbal path.
“I have done something unusual for me,” he said, waving pieces of paper in each hand. “I actually wrote this whole thing out. I am going to try to use very few adjectives [and] explain how this works, what’s been done, and what has to be done.”

Can you feel the enthusiasm?

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/0...care-glitches/