{"id":18237,"date":"2013-06-22T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2013-06-22T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T17:37:40","slug":"poll-obamacare-causes-41-of-small-businesses-to-freeze-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18237\/poll-obamacare-causes-41-of-small-businesses-to-freeze-hires\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: ObamaCare Causes 41% of Small Businesses to Freeze Hires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Gallup poll of 603 small business owners shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100825782\" target=\"_blank\">how ObamaCare is impacting the job market<\/a>, and with it, future economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key findings include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 41% of businesses have frozen hiring<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19% answered \u201cyes\u201d when asked if they had \u201creduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act\u201d (i.e. ObamaCare)<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 38% said they \u201chave pulled back on their plans to grow their businesses\u201d because of ObamaCare<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 52% say they expect a reduction in the quality of health care under ObamaCare<\/p>\n<p>The main policy goal of ObamaCare is to make health insurance, and with it health care, more available to people. Doing this, however, will not make either insurance or care more affordable.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to make health care more available is to make it universal, preferably by a provider who isn\u2019t constrained by cost. That would be the government. By increasing the cost beyond what companies can pay and stay in business, ObamaCare will move millions of Americans from a private sector model to a public provider model in just a few years\u2019 time. That helps liberals achieve their main political goal: Single-payer health care, or if you prefer, socialized medicine.<\/p>\n<p>With ObamaCare going online in 2014, the movement of workers from private to public health care provision will complicate the reform job conservatives need to accomplish. Repeal of the law is necessary, but unless there are other reforms in place that reroute severed workers into new private sector models, it won\u2019t be sufficient. Hopefully, a conservative consensus forms around a replacement option soon.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Western Europe here we come!<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100825782\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Gallup poll of 603 small business owners shows how ObamaCare is impacting the job market, and with it, future economic growth. Some of the key findings include: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 41% of businesses have frozen hiring \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19% answered \u201cyes\u201d when asked if they had \u201creduced the number of employees you have in your business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,35,1447,1001],"class_list":["post-18237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-repeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}