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January 8th, 2016 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
One of the biggest myths about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was recently shattered with the publication of a study conducted by an economist from the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends at the Agency for Healthcare Research; a professor with the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and the director of director of the Division of Research and Modeling, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends at AHRQ.
One of the provisions in the ACA states that employers that have a minimum of 100 full-time workers must offer health insurance to all by the end of 2015. That requirement extends in employers with at least 50 employees in 2016.
Opponents of the law claim that this provision will hinder the growth of small businesses and encourage more part-time workers; however those fears have been quashed because this study shows that the ACA did not result in mass part-time only employment.
By analyzing Census data, the authors of the study found no increase in part time work. They did uncover that in 2013 and 2014, prior to the implementation of the ACA, there was a 0.18% spike in employees working 25 to 29 hours per week – the end of part time employment.
In addition, the researchers showed that employees working 25 to 29 hours per week did not increase in 2012 and 2015. In fact, the number of part time employees decreased slightly.
There were 2 groups that continued to engage in part time work, before and after the implementation of the ACA: 1) those with little to no education, and 2) those who are 60 to 64 years of age. This is attributed to the employees desire to work part time in order to continue to qualify for subsidies from the government; including Medicaid, and other welfare benefits.
A second study conducted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Indiana University, and the University of Cambridge; and a corresponding white paper demonstrated that people are seeking out more employable hours.
Robert Kaestner, economist at the University of Illinois and co-author of the study explained: “In general, there’s been no evidence that the ACA has done anything significant to employment.”
According to the study, if there are employee who work less and still gain Medicaid benefits, the numbers are statistically insignificant. In addition, in states that expanded Medicaid, the job market was stronger than states that did not.
And for those states that expanded Medicaid, there was a 138% increase of citizens now above the poverty level who simultaneously were working more hours and perhaps several jobs and still qualifying for health insurance through the ACA.
Indeed, the ACA has had little negative effects on the labor market. And as one of the authors of the study put it: “Trying to detect the effect of the ACA on the job market is like finding a needle in a haystack.”
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