{"id":1942,"date":"2016-02-11T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2016-02-11T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T17:59:55","slug":"farm-contractors-balk-at-obamacare-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Farm Contractors Balk At Obamacare Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; April Dembosky, KQED via Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare is putting the agricultural industry in a tizzy.<\/p>\n<p>Many contractors who provide farm labor and must now offer workers health insurance are complaining loudly about the cost in their already low-margin business.<\/p>\n<p>Some are also concerned that the forms they must file with the federal government under the Affordable Care Act will bring immigration problems to the fore. About <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/topics\/farm-economy\/farm-labor\/background.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">half of the farm labor workforce<\/a> in the U.S. is undocumented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s definitely going to be some repercussions to it,\u201d said\u00a0Jesse Sandoval, a farm labor contractor based in Stockton, California. \u201cI think there\u2019s going to be some things that cannot be ignored.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/farm-contractors-balk-at-obamacare-requirements-2\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=26147329&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--8Nc6j9T74XWteOl5g2lMwpMuxXLJTVaMKo_ng_YQk02FIKnAU8B2ucBE1ah8iwrTwxx3xX1L2iACBIGcHIxr_6kLybA&amp;_hsmi=26147329\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; April Dembosky, KQED via Kaiser Health News) Obamacare is putting the agricultural industry in a tizzy. Many contractors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}