Obama’s Hometown Gov Dumps Part-Time Employees into ObamaCare

Preckwinkle is the one next to Obama

Preckwinkle is the one next to Obama

If you’re a local government and you don’t want to cover health care for your part timers, there’s always the signature legislative achievement of Barack Obama to toss them into.

Part-time government employees working for Cook County, Illinois — President Obama’s home county — may soon lose their employer-funded health insurance and instead have to move onto Obamacare’s healthcare exchanges.

That move would once again directly contradict President Obama’s promise that Americans who like their health plans could keep them.

In a press release from the Office of Cook County Board President, Democrat Toni Preckwinkle announced that she has proposed that all part time local government employees be removed from the county’s health plan or pay the entirety of it from their own funds starting July 1, 2014.

“The proposal would require employees and officials who receive less than full-time County pay to pick up the full share of their health benefits,” Preckwinkle said in the statement. “Those who choose not to will have the option of obtaining healthcare through a health insurance marketplace, accessing healthcare through other employment, or accessing the healthcare plan of a spouse, partner or family member.”

Between Preckwinkle and Sebelius, the Dems are really abusing the term “option”.

If you’re taking away health care from employees and telling them they have to make do with whatever they can… you aren’t giving them options. If you’re saying that people have the option of buying an Obama plan or delaying by paying a fine, that’s not an option either.

Preckwinkle’s office said that the proposal would save the county $2.2 million in 2014 and $4 million annually after that. Preckwinkle said the move was done for the sake of equity, fairness, and fiscal discipline…

Equity and fairness? Oh my.

  • FTFU-FedUP!

    Yep, Dat Chiken shor did come home to Roost!

    They are getting what they deserve and Voted For!

    Unfortunately, We are going to get what They Deserve!

    FTFU, Yet?

  • spin43

    This OBAMASCARE scam is all about control and wealth redistribution.

  • pupsncats

    It’s equitable and fair to switch the funding of the county employees health benefits from the county taxpayer to the federal taxpayer?

  • A Z

    Dems are really abusing the term “option”.

    This is not true. They are the people in power defining words a la 1984.

    Later as they exert more control they will have an actual bureaucracy to do this work for them.