"Obamacare Encourages Some Risky Behavior -- And That's A Good Thing"

[applegrove]

Obamacare Encourages Some Risky Behavior -- And That's A Good Thing

by Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/obamacare-and-entrepreneurs_n_4848422.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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"Job lock" used to be a thing that Republicans fairly explicitly opposed, but times have changed and the party that once decried it now decries the efforts to ameliorate it. This is a phenomenon noted by The New York Times Magazine's Shaila Dewan:

But in reality, many Republicans have long talked about the need to liberate workers from job lock, and conservative arguments against the Affordable Care Act willfully ignore the fact that giving workers more freedom benefits a favorite constituency: Would-be entrepreneurs. These future innovators might just be chained to their corporate gigs, unable to boost the economy with small-business hiring. Access to health insurance outside of work should enable them to take the leap.


Dewan continues:

James Bailey, a graduate student in economics at Temple University, came up with a clever way to test that theory: he looked at what happened to 19- to 25-year-olds when the Affordable Care Act made it possible for them to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans, beginning in 2010. Those who got the coverage, he found, were two to three times more likely to go into business for themselves. And that increase was largely driven by women, who are generally more risk-averse than men.


I am reminded of a line from one of the big speeches of the 2012 election cycle: "Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It's about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple, and then he came back and changed the world."






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[NYC_SKP]

1. People increasingly MUST change careers/jobs as things are more dynamic.

Job Lock was stifling.

ACA was the best thing to ever happen to me, in my career and in my heath care planning.

K/R

[applegrove]

2. And job lock benefitted the employers with overqualified employees (the underqualified ones would be

fired or let go). Giving those CEOS more productivity. No wonder they hate health care. It allows people to be the masters of their own talents instead of some corporation.

[Cha]

3. Count on reCons to take the opposite view with rabid dog tenacity..

anything awesome to do with Obamacare/ACA!

mahalo applegrove~

[applegrove]

4. Hey ya Cha!

[Cha]

5. "But in reality".. and there it is..

"But in reality, many Republicans have long talked about the need to liberate workers from job lock, and conservative arguments against the Affordable Care Act willfully ignore the fact that giving workers more freedom benefits a favorite constituency: Would-be entrepreneurs.."

Not even close to being in reCons realm of reasoning.

applegrove~

[JoeyT]

6. Being able to take your insurance with you

or have easy access to different insurance is what makes "At Will" employment go both ways. And to the shock of absolutely no one, the people that normally insist that it's the best thing ever are having a shitfit now that employees are gaining the power to screw back.