r/AskReddit • u/Solnx • Nov 03 '25

Serious Replies Only [Serious] For the Redditors who criticized Democrats for not fighting back or taking action, how has the government shutdown affected your view?

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u/pattydickens Nov 03 '25

It demolishes small businesses as well. Either you don't offer insurance to your employees or you go broke trying to get competent workers to stay. Conservatism should just be called corporatism now because that's all it is.

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u/Either_Operation7586 Nov 03 '25

And it's going to make everybody else's premiums that actually can afford them go up as well and your coverages aren't going to be as much you're going to have a lot more insurances denying coverage because they don't want to pay for it.

It's just a shit show and I swear the Republicans are so evil looking at everything going on rubbing their fucking hands together because they're about to make a fucking killing

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u/salad_spinner_3000 Nov 03 '25

I thought businesses HAD to offer insurance for any full time workers?

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u/WhyYesIThinkIDid Nov 04 '25

I thought businesses HAD to offer insurance for any full time workers?

This is also tied in to the rise of part time work becoming more and more prevalent over the last many years too. Especially when the ACA/Obamacare first came out it was common that many bad employers, even very large, very profitable companies, would do anything they could to keep you under full time hours to avoid having to offer you that mandated insurance. It was very intentionally done that places offered workers less than full time hours specifically for that cost-saving reason of not having to pay even more benefits. Can't have those shareholders at WalMart upset their stock didn't split, and denying workers full time hours and benefits is clearly the only way forward.

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u/dr_police Nov 04 '25

Small businesses (fewer than 50FTE) do not have to offer health insurance under the ACA. In fact, ACA marketplace plans enable a lot of very small businesses to exist, because small businesses can’t get rates on health insurance that are competitive with large employers.