Hillary: ObamaCare pushing some people into part-time jobs

[pinebox]

Way to repeat a RW talking point Hillary!

"Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without....."

Clinton: ObamaCare pushing some people into part-time jobs
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said President Obama's healthcare is pushing some people into part-time positions.

“Well that’s why they’re going to part-time, that and also the Affordable Care Act,” Clinton said in Iowa while fielding a question about discrimination against workers under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), according to the Washington Free Beacon.

“You know, we’ve got to change that, because we have built in some unfortunate incentives that discourage full-time employment,” she added.
Clinton did not say how she would remedy the issue, but said she wants to “look at all the employment rules.”

“I really worry about it because there is a trend to try and move more and more people into part-time work,” Clinton said. “And sometimes you want to work part-time, it fits into your family, it fits into your life obligations, but sometimes you want to work full-time but you can’t get a full-time job. So I want to look at all the employment rules.”
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/263582-hillary-obamacare-pushing-people-into-part-time-jobs

[Trust Buster]

1. Yes, she has always maintained that she wants to improve on the ACA. Sorry to see that you don't.

[pinebox]

4. She is repeating a RW lie

Sorry you can't see that.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/05/obamacare-had-little-effect-on-part-time-employment-study.html
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/264841-study-obamacare-not-shifting-workers-to-part-time-jobs

[Trust Buster]

8. I like the ACA and support her efforts to improve upon it. That will not change.

[pinebox]

10. We all do but she is repeating lies

and that should concern you.
Of course she does that a lot. A whole lot. Here, have a Kevlar jacket to suck that sniper fire

[Trust Buster]

13. I don't see where she's lying at all.

[AgerolanAmerican]

31. it's just a right wing

ventriloquism

[jeff47]

5. So what's her realistic plan to get Republicans to vote for those improvements?

'Cause this kind of thing can not be fixed via executive order. And it would be wrong to promise a pony, right?

[pinebox]

9. Correct

[Trust Buster]

11. Everything is negotiable. It depends on what Republicans ask for in return.

[jeff47]

12. Why would the party that voted more than 60 times to repeal the ACA

suddenly vote to improve it? You'd have to offer them something really, really, really massive for that kind of about-face.

[Trust Buster]

14. Of course you would. They're the majority party.

[jeff47]

15. My point is the price would be unacceptably high.

Thus making "improve the ACA with the Republicans" an utterly unrealistic plan.

[Trust Buster]

16. That's the only alternative right now.

[jeff47]

17. Nope, it isn't. Almost half the electorate doesn't bother to vote.

Perhaps we should offer candidates they like so that they return to the polls, instead of attempting to out-Republican the Republicans.

[Trust Buster]

19. People don't vote because they choose not to make an effort. It's called individual responsibility.

[jeff47]

20. People don't vote because they are offered terrible choices.

It is not the voter's duty to come out for choices they dislike.

[Trust Buster]

21. Try telling that to Ben Franklin. In a recent poll, only 42% could name the three branches of

government. Americans have become intellectually lazy IMO.

[jeff47]

23. Ben Franklin optimistically believed parties would want to win elections

and so would try to appeal to the largest blocs of voters they could find. Turns out, that isn't the case. There's a lot of Ned Lamonts and Bill Halters among our party's less-publicized races.

Again, it's the candidate's job to win voters. Candidates are not entitled to votes, they have to earn votes.

[Trust Buster]

24. Incumbents enjoy a 96% re-election rate. Our government is a reflection of the American people.

[jeff47]

26. Only because we don't offer better options as challengers.

"I'll be just like the incumbent" isn't going to get the incumbent out of office.

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. Hmmm turns to school curricula

Where civics has disappeared with arts and music

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Did not Walmart champion the 36-hour part-time employee to avoid providing benefits?

[pinebox]

6. Yes they did

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. so it's obamacare's fault? not the fault of cheapskate employers

Like walmart?

[pinebox]

7. Who she was on the board for? Yup apparently in Hillary's eyes

[dana_b]

18. employers have been doing this for DECADES!!

It's gotten worse in the past 10 years but that's the economy and the demand for jobs as well as GREED. It's an "employers market" and they can afford to be selective with how many hours they portion out per employee.

Obamacare? Meh...it's an excuse used by employers but this is not new for them to do.

[Sunlei]

22. raise the Federal minimum to $15 an hour & drop the requirement businesses /w many employees have to

provide insurance.

[JoePhilly]

25. Companies are using a provision in the ACA to hurt workers.

Hillary wants to fix that.

Do you support fixing the ACA to prevent this from happening, or not?

Well?

[WDIM]

27. If we had universal healthcare instead of

manditory health insurance this wouldnt even be an issue.

[DanTex]

28. Bradford Richardson is a Washington Times reporter. I suggest you self-delete.

[Metric System]

29. Plus, the article is from December.

[Vinca]

32. I thought that was a RW talking point that had been debunked.