@BarackObama kills Big Bird’s
health care
By Moe Lane
September 26th, 2013
You
know, a competent administration would have
someone on staff whose job it would be to keep track of potentially
awkward
symbolic moments, in order to keep them from exploding in their boss’s
face.
Apparently not:
In
a letter sent last week to President Obama,
U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick contended that the Affordable Care Act had
caused
Sesame Place, one of Bucks County’s biggest tourist attractions, to
terminate
health benefits for its part-time employees.
“This
law is hurting real people in my district
and around the country,” the Bucks County Republican wrote.
A
spokesman for SeaWorld, the amusement park’s
parent company, confirmed Wednesday that the company was cutting the
weekly
work limit for part-time employees from 32 to 28 hours. Under the
Affordable
Care Act, companies can face fines if they do not provide insurance for
staffers who work at least 30 hours per week.
Guess
Big Bird can try the exchanges, just like
every other part-time employee at Sesame Place… what? No, it doesn’t
matter
that Big Bird isn’t real: the government isn’t checking exchange
applications
for fraud anyway.
For
more, go to Redstate
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