Healthy Demand

Obamacare will reduce demand for employees at firms with slightly less than 50 workers and for hires wanting more than 30 hours/week of work. It’ll also reduce the supply of labor. Now, many employees work for health insurance. Once insurance becomes easily available and heavily subsidized for the poor, a major reason to work will be removed. Moreover, the better the subsidized exchange-provided plans are, the less appealing work becomes.

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