Now This? Restaurants Asking Us to Pay Their Employees' Healthcare
So it's come to this. A Florida restaurant chain has added a healthcare surcharge to its checks. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), " Eight Gator’s Dockside restaurants have instituted the surcharge, the Associated Press reported. Customers’ bills show a fee labeled “ACA,” which stands for the Affordable Care Act that will require all businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide health coverage or pay a fine." How would you feel about this if it came to a restaurant near you? I admit, I thought the ACA was a wonderful Obama move but now that I've recently been assessed an almost $800 co-pay for a test that used to cost $30, I'm rethinking this a little. I was one of those who lost their old insurance because it offered too little coverage and found reasonably priced (even slightly lower) insurance through a major insurer. But after waiting over eight minutes on the phone to talk to a real person, and hanging up, I'm won...