Debbie and Larry Underkoffler launched a staffing agency in what they call the worst economy ever, doing anything they could.
Through years of hard work, they built North Georgia Staffing to the point it now has 18 full-time employees, whom the Underkofflers happily provide with generous health benefits.
Aside from its full-time staff, the company also manages about 400 temporary workers, and is hoping to add another 200 in the next year. Those employees can buy into a separate health insurance program North Georgia Staffing signed up with.
Under new ObamaCare rules, many of those "temps" will count toward the Underkoffler's full-time staff.
Under the health care law, they'd have to provide insurance coverage to all, or pay a $2,000-per-worker fine.
Providing insurance to all the employees would bankrupt the company.
Instead, they'll eat the cost of the fine, and dump the employees they can't cover into Georgia's federally run health insurance exchange.
Because ObamaCare does not allow separate plans for the full-time employees and the temporary workers they manage, their full-timers will lose their current benefits.
Why would the government effectively penalize employees who already have insurance?
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