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CBS wonders: Is ObamaCare bad for business?
At the Five Guys restaurant in New York City, burgers and fries are the specialties, but owner John Rigos worries he’ll have to cook up some cost savings when the affordable care act is fully implemented.
“It’ll likely affect the number of people we can hire,” Rigos said.
Rigos, who has 10 New York franchises and 250 employees, was waiting until after the election to confront the new health care legislation — officially called the Affordable Care Act — which will force him to provide insurance for all his full time workers, or face hefty fines.
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Alternate headline: CBS comes out of coma, remembers journalism.
kim roy on January 2, 2013 at 6:24 PM
Put it on the receipt as a surcharge. Make all customers aware of the cost of government.
Charlemagne on January 2, 2013 at 6:24 PM
Ah I don’t remember these stories before Obamas reelection bid. Weird.
Bensonofben on January 2, 2013 at 6:25 PM
Pay the fine. Or tax. Or whatever the hell it is.
BacaDog on January 2, 2013 at 6:25 PM
There actually isn’t any health care in Obama Care, it’s just a big bureaucracy that hires people that live in the D.C. area so they will vote for him.
Fleuries on January 2, 2013 at 6:28 PM
The word you are searching for is “revenue”
Ditkaca on January 2, 2013 at 6:28 PM
CBS offers one small tidbit to provide a veneer of nonpartisanship, then veers back to slobbering over Barky 24/7.
Bishop on January 2, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Yes. Next question.
rbj on January 2, 2013 at 6:30 PM
If only somebody would have told CBS this in the last 3 years.
supernova on January 2, 2013 at 6:31 PM
*facepalm*
Up next on the CBS Evening News…
Are cigarettes bad for your health?
turfmann on January 2, 2013 at 6:35 PM
Way to go CBS – way to be about 3 years too late.
gophergirl on January 2, 2013 at 6:37 PM
CBS is racist.
tom daschle concerned on January 2, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Actually, it’s called “tribute” or “jizyah”.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 2, 2013 at 6:38 PM
Next CBS will be wondering if water is wet.
RadClown on January 2, 2013 at 6:40 PM
Love our inept media
Ca97 on January 2, 2013 at 6:46 PM
Pic of the Day: It’s 2013! Welcome To Obamacare!
“But, but, but they said Obamacare was ‘free’!” – Obamadolt
Resist We Much on January 2, 2013 at 6:48 PM
See my link above.
Resist We Much on January 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM
Like the $2 wh*res didn’t know all along. These people aren’t journalists. Period. They are wh*res.
novaculus on January 2, 2013 at 6:50 PM
Love it! Now, if it were 25% on every sale ….
OldEnglish on January 2, 2013 at 6:57 PM
CBS reported that 96% of all businesses have fewer than 50 workers, thus not forced to provide insurance, but they neglected to report:
–Many employers have been keeping the number under 50 because of ObamaCare.
–Most workers are employed by companies with more than 50 employees.
itsnotaboutme on January 2, 2013 at 6:59 PM
most journalists contented themselves with waiting for obamacare to pass and be signed into law AND for barry to be reelected to a 2nd term before having any bit of curiosity as to what was in the bill.
because as we know from mass murder sprees and the media- real journalists don’t like to leap to crazy, irresponsible conclusions.
mittens on January 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Nah. They just what to sucker the conservatives into thinking that they suddenly became aware. As soon as you think they are getting “it” they will turn around and bite ya. You just have to remember that they are the scorpion.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 2, 2013 at 7:08 PM
Or: With Obama safely reelected, CBS finally decides to risk a story about the potential downside of Obama’s signature achievement.
Aitch748 on January 2, 2013 at 7:19 PM
The many, many, many follies of ObamaCare shall come to pass, just as conservative and Libertarian critics said they would.
And when they do, the failures will inevitably be blamed on the “free market,” greed, racism, bigotry, globalism, “rich” people, Christians, and “rednecks” in “flyover country.”
Economic illiteracy is the foundation of the modern Progressive ideology. Lower and middle-income families to be hardest hit, as usual.
visions on January 2, 2013 at 7:39 PM
Who has the link to the NBC host/editor opening his show with (paraphrased)
“now that Obama has been re-elected, we can once again discuss the economy and unemployment using real numbers”?
rogerb on January 2, 2013 at 7:58 PM