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Re:Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged ... by frockington1 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:46AM (#21692635)
Unpopular opinion but I think the ACA did more to cripple hourly workers than any other legislation in history. The mandate to provide healthcare to anyone working over 30 hours resulted in work weeks being cut to 29.5 hours for many
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Re:Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged ... by joshmarlow on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:35AM (#21703007)
Do you have data/citations? I could believe this happens, but would like to see data on how wide-spread an impact this is.

There are always consequences and tradeoffs - if we had actual numbers about the magnitude of the impact, we could start to discuss if ACA was worth this particular tradeoff.

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