Clinton: ObamaCare discourages full-time jobs

Hillary Clinton at a campaign event.
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Speaking at a campaign event in Iowa this week, Democrat Hillary Clinton said that the Affordable Care Act — keystone legislation for the Obama administration she was a part of — tends to discourage employers from providing full-time positions.

Clinton was responding to a question about why employers seem to favor part-time employment in light of the Family and Medical Leave Act. "Well, that’s why they're going to part-time," Clinton said. "That and also the Affordable Care Act. You know, we've got to change that, because we have built in some unfortunate incentives that discourage full-time employment."

Clinton noted that employers can sometimes avoid the insurance mandates by favoring part-time positions, concluding that as a result "there is a disincentive within our system that we need to deal with."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.