Yes almost if not EVERYTHING that for the last 7 years instantly "gets blamed on Obamacare " were things that were going on when he was still a IL State Senator.
Used to work for Lowes and by 06 pretty much everytime someone quit, they almost never "fired" anyone so they could avoid paying unemployment, they just fucked with you enough until you said to hell with it and quit but when people did they either did not replace them at all or replaced them with a part time person maybe 2, no benefits no possibilty of ever having to pay overtime while getting maybe 60 hours a week of work. It was not just my store doing that and Lowes was hardly the only company doing that by then but before the first echo of Joe Biden saying it was BFD died out any company that was shifting workers to part time or hiring new part timers just blamed it on Obamacare and the Bulldogs of the country ate it up.
A few years back UPS was in the news because they came out with a policy that said if your spouse worked someplace that OFFERED health insurance that he/she had to buy/use that insurance that they were no longer going to "insure" the employees of other companies. Of course they blamed it on Obamacare even though companies had been doing that or at least "wanting to do that" for years now they just had the "perfect excuse" of course Rush, Sean and Bill were all over that and of course all the non thinking Bulldogs of the county swallowed that hook line and sinker.
"I could not keep my insurance/Doctor" For years we saw companies going out of business, "downsizing" moving to China or Mexico or just another state like Texas who were/are willing to bribe a company to move there often downsizing as part of the move. Well what was the result of that? If you could not move to where ever even if that was possibility you were out of job and even if you were lucky enough to get a new one odds are that new employer used a DIFFERENT insurance company that had a DIFFERENT "network" if they offered insurance at all that is. What did that equal "I could not keep my insurance.Doctor". For the ones that did not move well there were mergers, often with "downsizing" but even if that was not the case the new "parent company" often had different insurance company and even if none of that happened. It was also not unusual for a company to in order "to get a better deal" change insurance companies or the policies they buy from the one they are using. Again that equals "i was not able to keep my insurance/Doctor" Going on for YEARS before ACA but after 010 just scapegoat it onto Obamacare and the Bulldogs will believe that.
Every time an employer, especially one of those vaunted "small business" that the right loves so much and goes on and on and on about needed an excuse why they only used part time employees and never added any full time employees they blamed it on Obama care and when you looked at the company making the claim you found out they had no where near the number of employees that it would take the ACA would require them to offer insurance. Often like 10 or 20 if that and they could convert every part time employee to full time and then double the number and still have less than 50 employees to say nothing for the fact that in both pre and post ACA worlds they were/are never required to offer "benefits" to part timers anyway. But say it was all the fault of Obamcare and the Bulldogs of the world will eat that up.
As already noted the costs of healthcare and insurance had been going up by as much if not more for years, when President Obama was still an IL State Senator.
