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Fees for Uninsured

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Fees for Uninsured

Published: Wed, 16 Sep 2009

Description: Employers will resort to cutting hours or layoffs

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" Steve then -- Birmingham high -- welcome -- all the -- Fallujah. "

" I've got -- situation I own a eight franchise restaurant -- up there yeah I have 230 employees some old Tom but you full time. But mostly part time but -- Achievement -- young kids. I'm gonna get put all ages and anywhere and sixteen to 25 -- and they're begging hours so what we're not doing well we're doing. In college that going to affect my between Portland and they're important of course -- looked proper eastern. You know being up franchise -- but then again I know that literally thousands of people like you know all throughout the country now running businesses like that."

" Yeah. Again trying to find the employer responsibilities. Section here. Making more affordable. Small business. Don't you don't qualify as it phases out at 25 employees you don't count there. -- Well I mean one and make an important port audio. No but -- its responsibility for employers require employers to offer health insurance. For all employees with more than fifty employees. Who do not have coverage -- will have to reimburse the government for each full time employee defined as those working thirty or more hours a week. Receiving healthcare affordability credit in exchange for a 100% the average up to 400 dollars. Her whole number of employees of 400 times would you say 200 something."

" Yeah it definitely hear. -- while a caller on the looks like the year end target to 400 -- That's part being hurt and you too negative at all or are -- everybody's gonna work no more than 29 hours."

" yeah I think they'll what do you think of what that does to the -- the employment situation and our country."

" I think a lot of people utterly naive but I've got literally people don't like okay they want trucks that little people crying. Literally crying -- we can't get enough hours. Because the business is and there are now but he beat you wanna work in and it if you're gonna create poverty like people don't under."

" I was in the grocery store last night after the show stop by the grocery store picked -- a -- as a woman in there and cut a tower. The check out person and she's got one arm and it in a cast. And I said Wallace is kind of hard do your job with one arm. Tied up business Jesus I need the money."

" Daria yeah it's gonna people I don't think you -- the -- our economy works and we're not consuming and spending money. The economy and free in the in the revenue spectrum is gonna -- did you -- this -- gonna drop big politics suspect."

" Yeah and once they draw the line at thirty hours that to mean is the automatic signal to wall of view out there there are looking at this and going well I can pay 400 dollars times 200 some people right. And AMIS employs again. 3230. All right heroes heroes who have -- and -- done. That's not you -- pay 92000 dollars -- you can move your employees to 29 hours apiece."

" Oh yeah they're all -- nine point nine ability of going on aggregate part Beagle which you know."

" 92000 dollars or reduce their hours how hard is where you to figure out I mean you nailed it. Are you their -- you an incentive to reduce the number of hours the."

" Yeah that's about had no choice because the profit margin on a fast food registrar even if you're looking at the big name out there. They're looking at anywhere from 3%. 8% -- Steve good luck."

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