Wal-Mart announced today that they would no longer provide health care for some part-time workers, according to Reuters, right before Obamacare mandates force companies to offer health insurance to employees who work at least 30 hours a week in 2015.
Aboard Air Force One, one reporter asked White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest whether the news was an “unintended consequence” of the Affordable Care Act.
Earnest said that thanks to Obamacare, those employees could now apply for health care from the government marketplace.
In 2013, the Obama administration announced that they would delay the business mandate until 2015 — after the 2014 mid-term elections in November.
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