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during the debate between Ted Cruz and Bernie sanders last night about obamacare this one woman told Bernie she has a small business (I think a hair salon) and she was like I can’t grow my business because I have to provide my employees with health insurance and it’s too expensive. and Bernie straight up told her, hey you’re not gonna like my answer, but I’m sorry I think you need to provide them with insurance (and then he brought up the fact that he thinks single payer health insurance is still the way to go). then this lady told Ted Cruz that without Obamacare, she would have died. and he gave some generic answer about how he doesn’t wanna take away all aspects of Obamacare (which btw is a lie because he once held a 20 hour filibuster in which he read green eggs and ham in order to repeal every last word of Obamacare). but like…..this is where we’re beginning the discussion. “I can’t grow my business” vs “I would have died”
but it’s even more lopsided than that. it was really more like, “if I hire a 50th employee then maybe I might not be able to afford a 3rd Mercedes” vs “I would have died”
the small business woman was flat out lying
she was using an old republican trope to justify taking a dig at Obamacare. but if they’re honest, *anyone* who has ever run a business will tell you that if you’re in a position where you have so much demand for your business that you need to hire another employee, then you hire another employee almost without even thinking about it. you cannot wait to hire someone and start training them to close the gap
not having enough business is a problem. needing to add more employees due to increased demand is the opposite of a problem
and unless you’re paying them in gold bars it’s a pretty safe bet that you can afford it. because adding one more employee costs a lot less than the extra revenue you’re missing out on - that’s iff you’re *honestly* at the point where demand is so high that you really need a new hire to keep up with additional business & customer demands.
and like maybe you shouldn’t be in business if you literally can’t hire any more people because you take so much of the cut and you can’t afford to cut your own pay to provide your employees with semi-subsidized health insurance
boom!
thank you! I’m tired of ppl acting like owning a business is an entitlement to wealth.
1) not every business can become a massively successful business. Sometimes it’s just okay. Deal with it.
2) Sometimes your business sucks and if you cant make money it’s because you suck at what you’re doing or it’s not a good product. The end.
yes! sometimes it is a real skill to be able to determine whether or not you’re at that point where it’s necessary to add an employee, plus a lot of small business owners make the mistake of treating their business like a piggybank instead of paying themselves a salary just like any other employee
but yeah, most businesses are just okay. even franchises. don’t blame Obamacare if you’re too greedy, or if you just are not a good proprietor
And it’s like, we literally only do this when it comes to the cost of human labor. Like for instance, if a restaurant can’t afford to keep up with health code standards and makes food last longer by using spoiled ingredients, we blame the owners for running a shitty business, we don’t blame the health department for enacting those standards. Or if a business gets shut down because they couldn’t pay their rent, it’s not the fault of their landlords for asking that they pay it. But when it comes to employees, we seem to blame the system for asking that we pay them fairly and give them basic benefits.
Two physicians with decades of experience studying death rates relating to changes in health coverage have concluded that repealing Obamacare is fatal.
Republicans are not advertising it, but today, 1.31.2017 is the last day to sign up for Obamacare. If you sign up today your healthcare will remain in effect for at least one year.
Yes, you should still enroll in coverage before the January 31 open enrollment deadline. When you enroll in coverage, you and the health insurance company enter into a contract that is generally binding for a year (no matter how the law changes). This means that if you enroll in coverage now then you will have coverage throughout 2017.
Yesterday, we hosted a tumblr Issue Time about the Affordable Care Act. Here’s our most popular question. You can sign up for health insurance and have it for 2017 if you sign up by tomorrow (1/31/17).
He may stop the ads, but nothing beats old fashioned word of mouth. Make sure everyone you know (and those you don’t know) they can still sign up for obamacare/ACA until January 31st!
the more people sign up, the less eager republicans will repeal it, especially those in swing states and districts, and we only need three GOP senators to vote no on repeal.
I have bronchitis. Thanks to the ACA, I was able to get medicine for $0. #ThanksObama
LIES.
that came from taxes I paid.
Well, let my know how much I owe you and I’ll drop a few pennies in the mail. War comes from taxes you paid, and I personally dislike the amount I pay going for that… Maybe we should check “yes” or “no” on our 1040 forms this year for allocation of tax dollars.
I’m sorry you think I’m lying, but I’m not. I qualified for the Medicaid expansion under the ACA, which is partially funded through taxpayer revenue. I don’t think the IRS mailed you a letter saying, “Nah nah nah nah naaaaaaah! This year’s tax dollars went to pay for medicine for poor people mwahahaha!” Who knows? Maybe YOUR portion of tax dollars went to a Hellfire missile that took out a village in Afghanistan. Ooh, how exciting for you!
Comfort yourself with that thought as I use my inhaler, which I would not have been able to afford without the ACA.
what the fuck is wrong with Americans who aren’t on board with free healthcare. I’m Canadian and I don’t care that I pay extra taxes so a little boy in Alberta can have open heart surgery, or an elderly man in Nova Scotia can get the heart medication he desperately needs. It’s called taking care of your people. I’m glad I pay so that people can have a good quality of life. It’s called being a decent fucking human being.
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UK agrees!
Well this seems worth reposting this week.
This post from three years ago received the most notes of anything I’ve put up here.
Fun fact:
After getting this medicine, I got back up on my feet and got a temp job, which then led to me getting a full time job I’ve had for three years. I haven’t been eligible for Medicaid since September of 2014. I have a great policy I purchased on the state exchange. I paid federal taxes in 2015 and 2016 gladly.
And now these spineless, heartless, greedy, craven, Nazi-humping shitheels want to take it away from all of us. Call your representatives. Make your voices heard. The repeal has already begun. But it’s still not too late.
[image: facebook exchange where an anonymous user opines: i am not on obamacare. my health insurance is through the aca (affordable care act) which was what they had to come up with before obamacare crashed and burned as bad as it did. so i am going to be fine.]
At 1:13 PM EST the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution that will begin the process of repealing Obamacare. The final vote tally was 51-48. The resolution instructs the House to have a repeal bill ready by January 27.
Seven years ago, on December 24, 2009, the Senate voted 60-39 to pass Obamacare. All Republicans voted against it, all Democrats voted for it.
“Today, we take the first steps to repair the nation’s broken health care system, removing Washington from the equation and putting control back where it belongs: with patients, their families, and their doctors,” Republican Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee who sponsored the legislation, said in a statement.
Republicans did not have the 60 votes needed to repeal Obamacare, so they opted to defund it via a budget resolution, which only requires a simple majority.
“That means they can essentially gut the law, removing all the subsidies that help low- and middle-income people buy health insurance and getting rid of the smorgasbord of taxes — on medical devices, insurance companies and wealthy individuals — that pay for those subsidies,” NPR explained.
Republicans, despite having voted more than 60 times to repeal Obamacare, have never had a legitimte replacement plan. It is widely reported that they will take two to four years to replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving up to 30 million Americans without insurance, and many paying exceptionally high premiums for having pre-existing conditions, including HIV, diabetes, cancer, and even pregnancy.
Repealing Obamacare also devastates Medicare, and will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Donald Trump uring the presidential campaign promised he would never touch Social Security or Medicare.
Concerned citizens can call lawmakers in the House and Senate at 202-224-3121.
Concerned citizens can call lawmakers in the House and Senate at 202-224-3121.
CALL. THEM.
Virtually everyone I know would lose their health care including possibly us. This is actually the first time in my adult life I have had health care period which means I have years and years of possible health issues to catch up which in itself could take years more.
I can’t do much because I have a sensible democratic congressman who will already be fighting this - calling him is only going to make him more frustrated. But for those of you out there who actually have a congressman who might change their mind…call.
