The Perverse Incentives and Unintended Consequences of ObamaCare, Continued

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The road to Hell is paved by liberal Democrats:

An upstate New York grocery chain that had been praised for offering health insurance to its part-time employees will eliminate those benefits as a result of the federal health-care law passed in 2010.
“Several Wegmans employees confirmed part-time health benefits had been cut and said the company said the decision was related to changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act,” the Buffalo News reported late Wednesday. Under the so-called ObamaCare law, “part-time employees are not eligible for health insurance subsidies if their employer offers insurance,” the newspaper noted. By eliminating the employer-provided benefit, Wegmans makes its part-time employees eligible for government coverage funded by taxpayers.

Moe Lane points out that this boomerangs against workers who are always told they will benefit by voting for Democrats. But even if you stipulate (as I do not) that Democrats care more about “working families,” this does not necessarily translate to Democrat policies that actually benefit the people about whom Democrats care. Have none of these people ever read Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Sowell?

Oh, I’m sorry: They’re Democrats. Knowledge is optional.

The Weekly Standard has a video report from WHAM-TV:

 

44 comments

  1. The affordable care bill is a hoax by Obozo on the American public. It’s so unweildy that no one seems to know how to implement it, and who in God’s green earth wants the IRS in their health plan? Not me. And I don’t think anyone else wants it either.

  2. The question should be what will be the net cost for health coverage paid by the employees? By the way this area of NY supported and voted to make Hillary their senator. So if they have to pay more for health care, tough bunzies..

  3. Government is the very wellspring of perverse incentives.

    “Unintended” consequences? Getting everyone (eventually) onto single-payer was the whole point. The insurance industry is merely the Sonderkommando of the process.

  4. Just so. Obama doesn’t have to get single payer himself. He only has to destroy the existing system of private and employer-supplied insurance beyond repair, so there is nothing left.

    Phillip Klein compares this to the old Robert Moses tactic on urban projects: he would start building a park, for example, with the appropriated money and just leave it unfinished until the politicians gave him more. http://po.st/AQIuiK

  5. The same people that vote for Democrats will be the first to believe the media’s claim that “it’s the Republicans fault!” that they don’t have insurance.
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    In all seriousness, the biggest enemy is not liberal politicians. It’s the liberal media.

  7. When Democrats talk about “working families,” they mean government workers and people on welfare. In all fairness, Democrats care more about those people than they care about people who actually work.

  8. When Democrats talk about “working families,” they mean government workers and people on welfare. In all fairness, Democrats do care more about those people than they do about people who actually work.

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