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Obamacare Call Center Part-Time and No Health Care

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In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.

One branch of that call center will be located in California’s Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however, “about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits — a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.” The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process “a comedy of errors” and said she “never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time.”

The Times indicates that a job posting advertised ALL of the jobs as full-time, and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper, ”It reminded me of that George Clooney movie where he goes around the country firing people [Up in the Air]. The woman said, ‘I know you were led to believe you would be full-time, but things have changed. . . . You are actually ‘part-time intermittent.’”

The Contra Costa employees are currently in training, and the call center — one of three based in California — is set to go live on October 1.


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Those who became part-time were told they would have to pay full freight on their health plans, ranging from $600 to $1,200 a month for a single worker and between $1,400 to $2,900 a month for an employee with a family. That is a steep bill for employees with part-time jobs paying from $15.33 to $18.63 an hour


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So what? Should they hire people full time even though they only have a half day's work?

What a stupid fucking thread.

Also, there is nothing unusual about a help wanted advertisement offering full time employment while seeking full and part time employees. It's the most effective way to get the maximum number of applicants and is a common business practice.
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I had no idea Obama was such a micro manager.
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Fortunately for these workers, the House has voted yet again to repeal Obamacare. Because the bill was so large and no one read it, every missed the clause that said if the House of Representatives voted to repeal it forty times (despite not having the votes in the Senate or a veto-proof majority) the law is automatically repealed forever and no law will ever again be passed that lets the government interfere with health care.
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