The price of the Charleston Crab House’s $26.99 “World Famous Crab House Crab Pot” could go up next year, but not because of the price of crabs or a potential seafood shortage. It’s about health care.
John Keener, who owns both Charleston Crab House locations, on James Island and on Meeting Street, is one of many Charleston restaurateurs trying to make sense of the federal Affordable Care Act and how his business will be affected.
Two things are certain: Keener will need to offer his employees health insurance starting in 2014, and he will likely pass the associated costs of that coverage onto his customers.
Read it all from the local paper.
The definition of full-time is 30 hours per week. Do the math. The logical thing to do is to cut everyone’s hours to 28 per week and hire more part-time employees. This is a strategy tried and true. Apparently Democrats cannot do math. Employers who do math every day know the reality that policy makers don’t. So, the Crab Pot may get to double in price! The numbers of customers will decline. The business will go under. Then everyone involved will get to apply for government support. The real goal of Obamacare and the Democrats – one universal control of business, healthcare, and income.
Recon Nancy Pelosi has ever gotten around to reading the Act? Other than the parts that exempt her and her ilk from it?
Alas, the DOL has already said they are working on regulations which will classify anyone who is reduced in hours to avoid the ACA as Fulltime employee. The only hope is to scrap the whole ACA mess and start all over. As long as a democrat is president and the senate has at least 41 democrats, that will never happen.
I honestly don’t think ACA will be around for long. It appears to be designed to collapse. Then the DC elites can rush in with a “cure”, single-payer Government Universal Healthcare.
That is, unless the economy has already collapsed or our bumbling in the middle east has unleashed a world war.
#3 Well, I can’t disagree with that. Armageddon certainly will make the ACA seem pretty small.