Because that is not obvious and your characterization is inaccurate.
Your opinion is that Obamacare is a train wreck. That is clearly not a fact. Public approval of the various components of Obamacare remains high. It is helping lower income Americans....who previously did not qualify for Medicaid....to obtain affordable health insurance.
The job numbers do not support your contention that more and more employers are scaling back....nor does it support the claim that anyone is doing away with full time jobs in favor of part time jobs. That is a nutter lie that you have believed.
This thing that you are participating in....knowingly or not....where you miss characterize the law and the effect that is has already had....has grown to the point of insanity. Your numbers are incorrect, your understanding of the law is minimal and your dire predictions are simply that....predictions. And that, my verbose friend.....is not something that nutters have proven to be very good at.
Even the complaint that it is causing employers to cut back on hours to escape being part of the program is easy to fix. All that needs be done is to have employers pay into they system by an hourly basis with the employee paying the difference. Employers no longer will benifit from cutting hours and more employee's would be responsible for paying a portion of their insurance. It could prevent many from having to use medicaid.
Why should we pay for YOUR health care when YOU don't work for us? I have a better idea. Why don't YOU get a job looser.
Employers don't 'pay' for an employee's health insurance, the employee DOES. It is a deferred wage.
Personal Freedom, Responsibility, And Mandates
by Robert E. Moffit - The Heritage Foundation senior fellow
A Snare And A Delusion
Employer-based health insurance in this country is the product of wartime economic and tax policy of the 1940s. There is no reason why health reform in the 1990s should be governed by those unique circumstances and outdated tax policies.
Uwe Reinhardt and Alan Krueger tell us that the tax treatment of employment-based health insurance now is sharply regressive. And, Mark Pauly confirms, it contributes to market distortions, high costs, and lack of portability in health insurance. Americans today get tax relief for health insurance on only one condition: that they get it from their employer. This has tied health insurance to the workplace in a way that no other insurance is treated. It means that if we lose or change a job, we lose our health coverage.
Pauly also tells us that employer-based insurance hides the true costs of health care. Thus, there is no normal collision between the forces of supply and demand on even the most basic level. Most workers do not purchase health insurance; it is purchased by somebody else, usually the company.
For most workers, it is a free good, an extra, that automatically comes with the job. At least, we live with that comfortable illusion. But, in fact, it is not free at all, and the employer gives us nothing. Because too many people think that the employers contribution is the employers money and not theirs, the consumers perception is distorted (as is the providers), and health spending is not subject to market discipline. Likewise, because too many people still do not understand this reality, hidden taxes through the employer mandate are politically attractive. Such a mandate thus serves as a psychological snare and an economic delusion.
Karen Davis and Cathy Schoen suggest a payroll tax to finance reform, whereby the employer pays 8 percent and the employee pays 2 percent. If one of our tasks is to make the true costs transparent, this suggestion does not help very much.
In his otherwise enlightening paper, Reinhardt calls attention to the virtues of a mandated purchase of health insurance. And he warns that calling an employers mandated purchase a tax comes close to debasing the English language. But, in a similar context, Reinhardt uses the word contribution to describe suspiciously similar functions. Suffice it to say, the campaign for linguistic precision is hardly advanced by using the word contibution to describe the states forcible extraction of citizens money.
In another context, Reinhardt proposes
perhaps the best single reform idea to date. He suggests a simple financial disclosure on the part of the nations employers, requiring every employer to put periodically on the pay stub of every worker in America something like the following: We have paid you X thousand dollars in health benefits. This has reduced your wages by X thousand dollars. We would add: Have a nice day!5
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/13/2/101.full.pdf