Businesses look for ways around obamacare, or to abolish it.

[powderman]

As some businesses look for ways around ObamaCare, others attack the law directly  By Mike Emanuel
Published October 12, 2012
FoxNews.com   

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  A second Obama term would guarantee the president’s health care law will be fully implemented, and businesses are warning that may affect their employees.
Darden Restaurants, which owns Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and more, is the latest in its industry to look for a way to avoid ObamaCare. Darden owns and operates more than 2,000 restaurants, and employs 180,000 people. So the restaurant group is conducting a “test” at a select number of its restaurants in four markets.
 
Darden spokesman Rich Jeffers says the idea is figuring out what the costs are of the new health care law and how best to deal with them. Jeffers says with growing health care costs Darden is looking at the impact on their businesses of a larger part-time workforce versus full-time employment.
White Castle, McDonald’s and Denny’s are other affordable brands in the industry that have said they were looking for a way to avoid the new employer mandate due to take effect in 2014.
 
Washington, D.C., employment law attorney Robert B. Fitzpatrick offered this prediction if Obama wins re-election: “I would think aggressive enforcement people within the administration would pursue cases like that. And say listen, you're just playing with the numbers, playing with the hours to try to avoid compliance with providing health care to employees,” Fitzpatrick told Fox News. “And there are going to be consequences.”
Then there’s the case of Westgate Resorts CEO David Siegel, who warned if Obama wins, there will likely be layoffs.
 
Siegel sent a lengthy e-mail “to all my valued employees” and signed it “your boss,” and wrote, “If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company. Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back.  This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.”
 
Siegel says his business was doing a billion dollars in sales four years ago and had some 14,000 employees, but it already has had to trim his workforce to 7,000 currently. The CEO freely admits he is trying to influence his employees’ vote.
 
“I want them to be informed as to what the outlook is if there is another four years of this current administration,” Siegel told Fox News. “The increased burden of ObamaCare, the increased taxes on my company and any other burdens that he (Obama) might throw at us. I don't like this class warfare we're going through."

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[ChungDoQuan]

Meanwhile, Vermont is going to a public option, and some 20 odd other states are considering it, just on the premise that it will save them money.   

[ceadersavage2]

That easy just vote him out an all his cronies

[dwalk]

its going to be a "Hard row to hoe" any way you look at it.

once ANY law is in force, it's very difficult to amend, or rescind.

IF, the GOP takes control of the senate, AND keeps the house...there may be hope for, at least, halting the remainder of the AHCA from being activated. if not...we're shafted; the AHCA will drive us into the ground.

as obama commented during the first presidential debate: "You're going to have a hard time getting those democrats who passed it, to revoke it."

obamas legacy will be the dismantling of capitalism if he's re-elected...fascism is his true objective.

[Hairy Chest]

Thanks to Obamacare when we go for a physical, the extra tests that need to be done are covered.  We used to have to pay extra before.  So if you're going to go for a physical, get it done before the end of the year.   

[JonnyReb]

Theres no doubt that businesses are scrambling to come up with ways that enables them to stay in business once the new legislation kicks in. My father owns a medium sized business(75ish employees) and has already reduced his overhead and number of employees. He's getting ready to do it again as he's just not making enough to make it worth keeping afloat, 50 or fewer employees puts him in a different bracket of compliance so it only makes sense to downsize. I run a small business as a sole proprietor. Because of the way the new laws are written, I need to keep my GROSS below 250,000 a year or face the "evil rich" taxation rate. This is hilarious as after paying all my overhead and materials, plus one employee, I make to pocket only about a 1/5th of that amount. I'll have to restructure now as an llc to change this,. Or do as i've been doing, work less, make less, pay less. Not exactly the stuff of the American dream.  J