AMC Theaters CEO Calls Obamacare Delays 'Troublesome'

[sunoftheskye]

Theaters across the country have begun changing the way they do business because of the Affordable Care Act, even though key provisions have been delayed.

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[shortsweetcynic]

god, i miss the insurance we had when my hubby was a supervisor there. $40 a month for both of us with AMAZING coverage through aetna.

yesterday i did my pricing in the marketplace so i could sign up and for both of us, it'll be $400 a month for the worst insurance available. i'm kinda heartbroken, because that's half the mortgage, that's way more than we'd accept for a car payment, but i really wanted to make this work. we're seriously considering just paying the fine this year and signing up after he's out of school and employed.

[fenris_lorsrai]

what's available sadly varies a lot by state and some of them have really competative affordable plans and some have few options and they're all expensive. plus you have whether or not the state expanded Medicaid or not.

Its such a total crapshoot as to what individuals can get that its really aggravating.

[tabaqui]

My state didn't do the expanded Medicaid - they're trying to push it through now, we'll see - and just for *me*, it's looking like over 200 a month, which we cannot afford. My SO has health care through the VA, and the Monstrous Bebe has state health care (for kids 19 and younger), so i need to do *something*.....

Might, like shortsweetcynic said, take the fine and wait and hope they expand Medicaid.

[shortsweetcynic]

yeah. it's florida; they've been fighting every aspect of ACA tooth and nail from the very beginning (which seems incredibly counterintuitive - hello, i think the average age here is 65).

so i'm not terribly surprised, but even knowing i wasn't going to have great options, i wasn't expecting that.

[rhysande]

"Big gorilla in the room?" Is that the racist version of "elephant in the room?"

[squeeful]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_pound_gorilla

[ebay313]

So this is all, according to the law, going to take effect, just not yet. Where is the uncertainty in that? If you don't like the incremental changes and don't like the wait you can go ahead and just start implementing offering health insurance to those employees now!
The only uncertainty I see is the uncertainty they are trying to create by advocating changing that part of the law -_-

[sunhawk]

First thought was all the naysayers of socialism going "it's unnecessary for the government to get involved with business offering healthcare, if you just leave businesses alone, they'll do the right thing on their own!" yeah right, clearly a fine example of their enthusiasm for doing right by their employees.

[shortsweetcynic]

"it's unnecessary for the government to get involved with business offering healthcare, if you just leave businesses alone, they'll do the right thing on their own!"

[sunhawk]

I know eh? ha ha

[ebay313]

IME most people I've seen who needed the ACA, are benefiting from it and purchasing in the exchange are people who work, but don't have insurance. My employer keeps me and other employees out of being eligible for benefits or unionized by keeping us in "temporary" job classification. We get renewed each year as a temporary employee over and over, because as long as we are classified that way we don't get represented by a union and we aren't subject to the same pay and benefit requirements as other employees. In what world does that sound like doing the right thing to take care of their employees?

[joiedumonde]

Is it sad that my first thought was to be surprised that at least he isn't blaming any staff reductions on the ACA?