The federal government should require only employees working 40 hours a week to be eligible for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, rather than the current 30-hour threshold, U.S. Rep. Todd Young says.
"With respect to Obamacare, they want employers that employ people 30 hours a week or more to provide them with government-sanctioned health insurance," Young, a Republican from Indiana, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"Let's move that up to 40 hours so that we can keep businesses competitive and prevent workers from losing hours that they desperately need to put food on the table and pay their bills."
Young, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he is hearing horror stories about people losing the healthcare that President Barack Obama originally promised they could keep.
"We continue to make the argument that this is a fundamentally flawed law. We're going to see the premiums go up. We're going to see people continue to lose coverage," Young said Tuesday.
"I try not to employ the three-letter L-word, but let's just say there's inconsistency in the facts that needs to be explained, and there's certainly an inconsistency between previous promises and what's been delivered with this healthcare law," he said.
"We've got 1.5 million Americans who received a letter from an insurance company indicating that they're being canceled, and so, I mean, that's what happened to Mike out of Bloomington, Ind. He received such a letter and showed it to our office. He also discovered subsequently that he's going to see a premium increase from $500 up to $1,400.
Via: Newsmax
Continue Reading......
Showing posts with label Newsmax. ObamaCare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newsmax. ObamaCare. Show all posts
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Coburn made the comment during an event for the New York Young Republican Club, the newspaper reported . "There's no comity wi...
-
Because Hillary Clinton officially joined the presidential race last Sunday afternoon, many consider the 2016 primaries to officially be...
-
Towns all over Britain are blowing millions of dollars on wind turbines that are generating almost no revenue and will take hundreds of y...
-
The same-sex “marriage” vote in Ireland marks the largest victory for the LGBT movement thus far. It’s quite a feather in the gay boa – an...
-
On Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, Washington Post columnist George Will took on proponents of federal assistance...
-
Unemployment rates rose in nearly all large U.S. cities in June as college graduates and many of those still in school began searching for...
-
This is what happens when the two parties ruling Washington lose touch with America and pander to their crazy-extreme bases: President Ob...
-
Pope Francis has said the Catholic Church is too focused on preaching about abortion, gay people and contraception and needs to become more...
-
WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his controversial health care legislation Friday, calling Republican efforts to repeal it an “ideol...
-
California regulators radically revamped the way electricity rates work in the state, approving changes Friday that will raise monthly uti...