{"id":20288,"date":"2013-08-30T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:41:23","slug":"who-loses-under-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20288","title":{"rendered":"Who Loses Under ObamaCare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/politics\/082913-669228-spouses-unions-risk-losing-health-plans-under-obamacare.htm?p=full\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/a> posted an article yesterday about five <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social group\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">groups of people<\/a> who are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage under <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes one of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President&#8217;s<\/a> promises regarding ObamaCare&#8211;a promise which is rapidly becoming obviously untrue:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;We will keep this promise to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">American people<\/a>. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article lists the five groups of people who may lose their healthcare coverage&#8211;spouses, part-time workers, retirees form the private sector, retirees from the public sector, and people who buy their health <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/industry\/Insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">insurance<\/a> individually.<\/p>\n<p>United Parcel Service (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"NYSE: UPS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=NYSE:UPS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"googlefinance\">UPS<\/a>) has already announced that it will no longer provide health insurance for spouses of employees. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"University of Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.035,-78.505&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.035,-78.505 (University%20of%20Virginia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">University of Virginia<\/a> has announced that it will no longer provide insurance for employee spouses who can get insurance from their own jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 grocery chain <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wegmans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wegmans.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Wegmans<\/a> will be dropping healthcare coverage for part-time workers. Other businesses are increasing the number of part-time employees in order to avoid the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health insurance mandate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_insurance_mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">healthcare mandate<\/a> that requires them to provide insurance for full-time employees.<\/p>\n<p>ObamaCare is a really bad law. It needs to be stopped in its tracks. I don&#8217;t know exactly what that will look like, but it needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b2c22e74-c9bd-432d-8a66-1a378703327e\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily posted an article yesterday about five groups of people who are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage under ObamaCare. The article quotes one of the President&#8217;s promises regarding ObamaCare&#8211;a promise which is rapidly becoming obviously untrue: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4071,660,7,134,4490,6221,6222,6223],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health-insurance-mandate","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-united-parcel-service","tag-university-of-virginia","tag-wegmans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20290,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions\/20290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}