(3) my biggest reason, however, that few talk about, is how Obamacare will get rid of full-time workers in food service and retail. That sounds like a bad thing, but traditionally people in these jobs have been able to work shifts at two locations during a week. I know quite a few age 35-40 career waiter types who have gone from working multiple restaurants to being only at one that chose to kept them during the recession.
Restaurants and stores going from carrying 5 cooks or cashiers or whatever at 40 hours/week each to 10 at 20 hours/week will get blood pumping in these jobs. Better yet, business owners are generally a lot more willing to expand at the first sign of increasing business with part-time so it could be we'll go from 5 @ 40 hr/wk to 15 @ 20 hr/wk. A net gain in workers and total hours hired. The loss of fulltime hours by the original 5 can easily be restored at another business. This will be huge for the economy.
And those people who go from full-time to part-time will still have health insurance because of Obamacare, so basically everyone wins. Wow, I don't know if this was intentional, but it's pretty genius.
