I think this is awesome for two reasons. First, it shows yet again that businesses will just pass on costs to the consumer when hit with taxes. Second, it will continue to drive the negative feeling towards the ACA into the elections. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-27/obamacare-now-appearing-your-restaurant-bill That the bulk of Americans (especially those 4+ million whose insurance policies have recently been cancelled as a result of the ACA) have to pay more for healthcare as a result of Obamacare, is now largely accepted and well-known. But did you know that the cost of Obamacare is slowly metastasizing to other places? Such as your restaurant bill. Presenting Exhibit A. From CNN: So more surcharges coming then. The bottom line decision for businesses: fire your workers, or pass through the costs to other consumers. Many have done the fomer, or converted full-time workers to part-time status. Increasingly more are opting for the latter. How long until the popular outcry that this latest "freebie" by the government was anything but.
A cute way of encouraging people to ''eat healthy'' Good job Michelle Obama. . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obesity rates among 2- to 5-year-old Americans dropped from 13.9 percent to 8.4 percent between 2003 and 2012, according to the findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Overall, however, more than a third of U.S. adults and 17 percent of kids and teens are obese. "The rapid increase in obesity we saw in the '80s and '90s has definitely slowed," epidemiologist Cynthia Ogden told Reuters Health. "There's some glimmer of hope in the new data in relation to the 2 to 5 year olds." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/obesity-rates-drop-young-children_n_4855826.html
It's a dark day indeed when business starts passing the cost of doing business on to the customer. Damn you, Obama!
Following a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that made Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act optional for states, 19 states have opted out of the reform, rejecting billions of dollars of federal funding for low-income residents. Texas and Florida will lose more than $9 billion and $5 billion, respectively. The following map indicates the net loss of federal funds by 2022, in millions, for the 19 states choosing not to participate in Medicaid expansion, assuming all other states participate: A state-by-state breakdown: Alabama: -$943,000,000 Alaska: -$229,000,000 Florida: -$5,038,000,000 Georgia: -$2,862,000,000 Idaho: -$297,000,000 Kansas: -$950,000,000 Louisiana: -$1,655,000,000 Maine: -$294,000,000 Mississippi: -$431,000,000 Missouri: -$2,249,000,000 Nebraska: -$738,000,000 North Carolina: -$2,591,000,000 Oklahoma: -$1,264,000,000 South Carolina: -$807,000,000 South Dakota: -$224,000,000 Texas: -$9,217,000,000 Utah: -$719,000,000 Virginia: -$2,839,000,000 Wisconsin: -$1,848,000,000 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/27/states-medicaid-expansion_n_4867252.html more proof where the low information/low income people are.
oh wow dude, the cost of obamacare is 100% on him and the dem party. As in, if there were no obamacare there wouldn't be any ACA costs to pass on to consumers. come on mang.
No, you misunderstand. I'm blaming Obama for the entire process, the whole thing, of business passing its costs on to customers. Unprecedented!