A small business owner tells NPR why Obamacare will fail

[mota bhai 2,675]

My thoughts: the man has a point. However, the way I see it, if you currently don't make room in your budget for healthcare, you're part of the problem. It's time for you to find stuff to cut so you stop being a burden on the rest of us.

James Ruder ... owns a company that makes wooden shipping pallets.

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Ruder is clued in enough to at least start asking questions, but says he still has gaps in what he needs to know about the health care law. One thing he's pretty sure of, though: His employees won't want to spend any money on health insurance.

"They live check-to-check," he says. "It's just the lifestyle that they're in, and every dollar matters. I just can't even imagine a sacrifice like this."

After getting a subsidy, that sacrifice would be about $40 a month for the lowest-priced plan for his lowest-paid worker, who makes $10 an hour.

Someone who's making his top-end wage, $15 an hour, would pay a little more. Subsidized coverage for that worker, plus a spouse and child, would run about $90 a month.

That would be a big expense for Ruder's employees.

"You'd be surprised," he says. "We make a $2 error on their check, they're standing there to have another check cut. They can't even wait till the next week."

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/29/227348930/insurance-exchanges-will-open-tuesday-to-scrutiny-confusion

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

However, the way I see it, if you currently don't make room in your budget for healthcare, you're part of the problem. It's time for you to find stuff to cut so you stop being a burden on the rest of us.

Exactly. The freeloading has got to stop.

[Protocol417 161]

I make only a little bit more than the top tier listed and my insurance is nowhere near $90 as an individual, much less a family. It would be lovely to have insurance that cheap! I mean, I still wouldn't be able to really afford to use it, but still...

[Karee 4,190]

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I think there's going to be quite a few unintended consequences. I suppose that can be said for anything new though. Hopefully the good will outweigh the bad.

[MyLittlePony 340]

Obummercare is a train wreck in the making.