More on the "seen and the unseen" related to Obamacare

Bastiat's "seen and the unseen" and Thomas Sowell's "and then what" express the same basic notion. That notion is part of  what the economist Russ Robert calls the economic way of thinking.

See here for a commentary on one of the many "and then whats" of ACA.Part time workers are excluded from the employer mandate to provide insurance or face a fine.So the definition of Part time worker become important. The latest government edict on that stipulates than the cut point is 30 hours a week whereas previously the definition was less than 35 hours per week. So there is now a substantial financial incentive for employers to limit part time workers to less than 30 hours per week. The result is more part time employees will work less;more of the marvelous social justice that ACA is bringing to the middle class and those lower than that on the income spectrum and beating them over the head with it.

I quote from the above referenced article:

 "So there’s a balancing act: preserving jobs vs. providing insurance. The problem isn’t small. In September, 34 million workers, about a quarter of total workers, were part-time, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the bureau defines part time as less than 35 hours a week; Obamacare’s 30 hours a week was presumably adopted to expand insurance coverage. There are now 10 million workers averaging between 30 and 34 hours a week. To the bureau, they are part-time; under Obamacare, they’re full-time."

  There are advocates of ACA ,including some  in leadership role at major physician organizations, who seem unconcerned or at least silent about the unprecedented power given to federal bureaucrats (this time the IRS) to put words to paper and influence the lives of millions of people seeing only that we have moved further to universal coverage somehow believing the fairy tale than given millions more people Medicaid cards will translate into those people actually getting care.

Bastiat:

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"In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them."