It's been reported in the papers that several companies (including Trader Joe's) are no longer giving their part time employees health care. Now just looking at the headlines one would imagine that this is a bad thing.
After reading the headlines one finds out that the form of health care that these companies were giving their employees were not the very good and the reason that they were taking away their employer sponsored health insurance is that it didn't pay for doctor appointments that didn't relate to emergencies (in other words the health insurance didn't pay for checkups).
The affordable health care act at least gives a minimum standard for health insurance. And some of those minimum health care insurance policies proves that government intervention to set standards was needed.
I almost forgot, some of those companies that no longer give their part time employees health insurance are giving money too buy from the government health exchange (including Trader Joe's).
In reality the Affordable Healthcare Act isn't really taking away health insurance from part time workers it's giving them a chanmce of something better.
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