How would the employer mandate work for part time employees?

[yurbud]

I'm a community college instructor, and sadly, most states allow college to operate with the labor ethics of Walmart.

Like the overwhelming majority of community college instructors, I have to patch together two part time jobs (some need more than that) to make enough to survive. I've worked in four different districts, and only one offered me health insurance--after I'd worked there for two years. My other school just started offering health insurance to part time faculty--but only to a few on a first come, first served basis.

Even the "good" school doesn't offer coverage for my family.

Most schools in the state still offer no coverage to part time faculty.

My question is will the employer mandate will stomp out this abuse or leave the loophole open?

[JuniperLea]

1. As long as there is a public option...

Does it really matter? Seems to me this plugs a lot of holes.

[Salviati]

2. That may be, but I hope that they at least pro-rate the fines for not insuring employees...

Just to stop all the playing with hours, that keep people at 32 hours a week so that they don't have to give them benifits.

[JuniperLea]

3. That could change too...

It would be a whole different ball game when there are actual choices involved. Seems to me since the idea is to have everyone in the US insured, there's no way part-timers could be ignored.

My daughter just got knocked down from full to part-time... totally sucks.

[yurbud]

4. yeah, that could help a great deal