@TheDaleJackson If there was no Obamacare, part-time employees would probably be unable to get health insurance because they'd have pre-existing conditions or they would still have too little money to pay for proper coverage. If they are unable to afford health insurance on limited incomes, then there is a good chance that they have health problems that have been going untreated. Having a lack of health care coverage and having physical and mental health care problems tend to go hand-in-hand with being in a lower-income bracket.

I don't think Obamacare is perfect, but I don't think it's the big-bad that many politicians make it out to be. I would prefer if it were a single-payer system or if our health care system were more affordable in general like what you'd find in other "developed" or "first world" nations. I think that the system has been broken for a long time and that the ACA, as is, is better than what we've had, but that it could be even better and that we as a society should try to improve upon it, rather than just dismiss it or overturn it outright.

BTW - My original tweet was about this story, where employees are facing a cut of their hours because Morgan County's school system current insurer won't cover certain people and the school system can't afford the fine: http://whnt.com/2014/01/22/morgan-county-school-district-faces-health-care-coverage-dilemma/

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