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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 5, '14 9:31am  
During a Google Hangout session on Friday, fry cook Darnell Summers told President Obama that his hours were cut due to the Affordable Care Act. “We were broken down to part time to avoid paying health insurance,” he said. Summers explained that he makes $7.25 an hour and has been on strike four times seeking a wage increase. “We can’t survive, it’s not livin’,” he said.The president responded by urging states to increase the minimum wage. “I am working to encourage states, governors, mayors, state legislators to raise their own minimum wage,” Obama said. “Obviously, the way to reach millions of people would be for Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage law. So far, at least, we have not seen support from Republicans for such a move.”The president did not address Summers’s comments about the healthcare law.  4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 5, '14 9:37am  
CBO nearly triples estimate of working hours lost by 2021 due to Affordable Care Act"CBO estimates that the ACA will reduce the total number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5 to 2 percent during the period from 2017 to 2024, almost entirely because workers will choose to supply less labor—given the new taxes and other incentives they will face and the financial benefits some will receive," said the report. "The reduction in CBO's projections of hours worked represents a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2.0 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024," it added.The White House responded to the report, saying it does not show that Obamacare will reduce jobs.  4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 5, '14 9:43am  
After overcoming website glitches and long waits to get Obamacare, some patients are now running into frustrating new roadblocks at the doctor's office.A month into the most sweeping changes to healthcare in half a century, people are having trouble finding doctors at all, getting faulty information on which ones are covered and receiving little help from insurers swamped by new business.Aliso Viejo resident Danielle Nelson said Anthem Blue Cross promised half a dozen times that her oncologists would be covered under her new policy. She was diagnosed last year with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and discovered a suspicious lump near her jaw in early January.But when she went to her oncologist's office, she promptly encountered a bright orange sign saying that Covered California plans are not accepted. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 5, '14 1:31pm  
More days in the life under Obamacare.

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~ 10 years ago   Feb 5, '14 2:03pm  
As people try to sign up for healthcare, 30 million people have been told they qualify for Medicaid, another form of welfare.Another step down the road of government control.  If you depend on the government for food, housing, and healthcare, you have given the government control of your life. 4951
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