It's what you create when you apply market-based solutions to public-policy problems, and the Goldberg Act is the poster child. Sure, I'm a "winner" inasmuch as I'm getting inexpensive health insurance, but that's only because I earned poverty-level wages last year. If I earned the same kind of scratch I made a couple of years ago, I'd be paying a lot more. It's also just the excuse our job creators need to continue the trend they've been pushing for years, i.e., turning full-time jobs with benefits into part-time freelance/contract positions with no benefits and no health care:
The Affordable Care Act will result in more than 2 million fewer full-time workers in the next several years, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The law is also expected to cause others to work fewer hours, translating into a loss of the equivalent of an additional 2.5 million full-time positions in the next decade.
The Patient Protection Act was all well and good. How about a Worker Protection Act now?
---Baron V
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