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#1 Feb 27 2014 at 4:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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So how much does Obamacare cost you? Linky.

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Several restaurants in a Florida chain are asking customers to help foot the bill for Obamacare.

Diners at eight Gator's Dockside casual eateries are finding a 1% Affordable Care Act surcharge on their tabs, which comes to 15 cents on a typical $15 lunch tab. Signs on the door and at tables alert diners to the fee, which is also listed separately on the bill.


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Clark (edit: their director of operations) is not sure how much the company is spending on compliance, but estimates that it will cost $500,000 a year to extend insurance to its full-time hourly restaurant workers. The surcharge may bring in about $160,000 a year, she hopes.


So there, in a nutshell, is how much Obamacare is increasing costs for this particular business. A little over a 3% surcharge on your meal would over their health care costs, or somewhere around fifty cents on your $15 tab.

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#2 Feb 27 2014 at 4:33 PM Rating: Good
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Beer and boobs are always on my thoughts, I also know too little about this to make a sensible comment as I have no idea just how the American insurance/health care system functions (or in how far it functions at all).
#3 Feb 27 2014 at 4:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Beer and boobs are always on my thoughts, I also know too little about this to make a sensible comment as I have no idea just how the American insurance/health care system functions (or in how far it functions at all).
From what I can tell it's mostly big hospital bills for cheap items and large donations by rich people.
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#4 Feb 27 2014 at 5:02 PM Rating: Good
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Still less underhanded than the various extra costs that come with cellphones.
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#5 Feb 27 2014 at 5:07 PM Rating: Good
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Cute attempt to get some publicity but on a different level - what's next? Medicare surcharge, energy compliance surcharge, health inspection surcharge, etc. Time to dine elsewhere.


Oh, Florida, etc.
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#6 Feb 27 2014 at 6:39 PM Rating: Good
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Why go somewhere with an additional surcharge? I'm sure there are plenty of equally horrid chain restaurants in the area without it.
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#7 Feb 27 2014 at 7:11 PM Rating: Good
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Checked yelp.com, and ignoring the last two or three reviews the place sounds mediocre at best.
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#8 Feb 27 2014 at 7:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Why add a surcharge to offset costs you haven't even analyzed yet?
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Why go somewhere with an additional surcharge? I'm sure there are plenty of equally horrid chain restaurants in the area without it.


The point is that you're paying the surcharge whether they tell you about it or not. Every dollar of increased costs related to Obamacare will ultimately be passed on to the customer. The point (in addition to publicity) is to make their customers aware of the extra cost rather than just quietly raising their prices. It's a clever bit of political protest IMO.
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Why add a surcharge to offset costs you haven't even analyzed yet?

'Cause Obama.
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Elinda wrote:
Why go somewhere with an additional surcharge? I'm sure there are plenty of equally horrid chain restaurants in the area without it.


The point is that you're paying the surcharge whether they tell you about it or not. Every dollar of increased costs related to Obamacare will ultimately be passed on to the customer. The point (in addition to publicity) is to make their customers aware of the extra cost rather than just quietly raising their prices. It's a clever bit of political protest IMO.

That's right, we all pay one way or another for being fortunate enough to live in a society where we're free and able to go out to a restaurant and have someone else prepare our food, all fat and happy like. This restaurant chain is trying to make some sort of gimmicky statement. I hope it backfires on them.

If two restaurants are equal except one 'advertises' an extra surcharge, which are you gonna go to?
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Elinda wrote:
If two restaurants are equal except one 'advertises' an extra surcharge, which are you gonna go to?


Well, being that it's an "Anti-Obama" statement, then those people will flock to the restaurant in show of support of how Anti-Obama they are.
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Elinda wrote:
If two restaurants are equal except one 'advertises' an extra surcharge, which are you gonna go to?


Well, being that it's an "Anti-Obama" statement, then those people will flock to the restaurant in show of support of how Anti-Obama they are.

I doubt it. For most the mighty dollar has much more impact than politics.

Sure, the regulars will support them and they may even generate some anti-Obama business but it they probably won't spend squat and will be short-lived.
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Which one of these crappy restaurant serves the best nachos? That's where I'm going.
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Elinda wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Elinda wrote:
If two restaurants are equal except one 'advertises' an extra surcharge, which are you gonna go to?


Well, being that it's an "Anti-Obama" statement, then those people will flock to the restaurant in show of support of how Anti-Obama they are.

I doubt it. For most the mighty dollar has much more impact than politics.

Sure, the regulars will support them and they may even generate some anti-Obama business but it they probably won't spend squat and will be short-lived.


Well, look at that Chicken place.
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Elinda wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Elinda wrote:
If two restaurants are equal except one 'advertises' an extra surcharge, which are you gonna go to?


Well, being that it's an "Anti-Obama" statement, then those people will flock to the restaurant in show of support of how Anti-Obama they are.

I doubt it. For most the mighty dollar has much more impact than politics.


You just said that their prices are the same though (at least I assumed that's what you meant by "equal"). There's no dollar to consider. One just tells you the portion of your bill that went to pay for Obamacare and the other doesn't. It's not a bad way to both explain why you had to raise your prices *and* make a political statement at the same time.
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gbaji wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Why go somewhere with an additional surcharge? I'm sure there are plenty of equally horrid chain restaurants in the area without it.


The point is that you're paying the surcharge whether they tell you about it or not. Every dollar of increased costs related to Obamacare will ultimately be passed on to the customer. The point (in addition to publicity) is to make their customers aware of the extra cost rather than just quietly raising their prices. It's a clever bit of political protest IMO.


Given that every restaurant increases their prices for one reason or another without notification, it seems quite political to point out the "Obama-fee".

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Given that every restaurant increases their prices for one reason or another without notification, it seems quite political to point out the "Obama-fee".


Thank you for pointing that out to us, Captain Obvious.
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gbaji wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
Given that every restaurant increases their prices for one reason or another without notification, it seems quite political to point out the "Obama-fee".


Thank you for pointing that out to us, Captain Obvious.


Err.....of course, but you presented it in such a way as if they were doing something good for letting the customers know as opposed to "quietly raising their prices". It wouldn't be "quiet", it would simply be raising a price, just like every other raise. I was pointing out that there is no difference.
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Almalieque wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
Given that every restaurant increases their prices for one reason or another without notification, it seems quite political to point out the "Obama-fee".


Thank you for pointing that out to us, Captain Obvious.


Err.....of course, but you presented it in such a way as if they were doing something good for letting the customers know as opposed to "quietly raising their prices". It wouldn't be "quiet", it would simply be raising a price, just like every other raise. I was pointing out that there is no difference.


Except that you're raising awareness of the cost of Obamacare. That's the whole point. If your objective is to increase opposition to Obamcare by raising awareness of its cost, showing that cost on your customer's bills isn't a terrible way to do that. It's probably more effective than paying for political ads, and the great thing is that it doesn't cost you anything. You just program in one additional line on your PoS system and off you go. And if you then show other like minded businessmen this idea, they might pick it up and do the same.

Edited, Feb 27th 2014 7:25pm by gbaji
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It won't drum up new business, nor will they really lose what regular clients they have so it's at best an exercise in futility. Or I guess the owner can feel really good for himself. That has to count for something.
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Pretty reasonable "tax" to be quite honest. It will get cheaper as the private industry losses control over medical care costs as well. Once the government standardizes costs, the overall effective cost to the tax payer will drop closer to other G8 nations. Assuming of course your congress doesn't go full ****** and pretend they can have a nationwide medical plan, coexist with private medical pricing...in that case the private market will continue to rape the people of the US blind. Then charge them to double to test their eye sight.
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It won't drum up new business, nor will they really lose what regular clients they have so it's at best an exercise in futility.


Unless the point is to raise awareness of the cost of Obamacare, in which case doing so while not costing yourself a dime is far from an "exercise in futility", right? Please tell me that you understand that the message is the point? I've only repeated this like 3 times now.

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Or I guess the owner can feel really good for himself. That has to count for something.


Sure. Just like when Starbucks or Ben and Jerry's promotes some cause by naming a flavor for it, right? It's funny how hard some of you seem to be trying to insist that this is just a pointless waste of time. This chain isn't doing anything different than a zillion other folks out there finding novel ways to get a social or political message out. Is the reluctance to acknowledge that this is a reasonably effective way of getting that message out really about the method, or because it's about Obamcare?

I suspect the latter.
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Pretty reasonable "tax" to be quite honest. It will get cheaper as the private industry losses control over medical care costs as well. Once the government standardizes costs, the overall effective cost to the tax payer will drop closer to other G8 nations. Assuming of course your congress doesn't go full ****** and pretend they can have a nationwide medical plan, coexist with private medical pricing...in that case the private market will continue to rape the people of the US blind. Then charge them to double to test their eye sight.


/shrug Some people will think it's reasonable, some wont. But letting people know lets them make their own decision about that. I think a 3% increase in the price of everything is an incredibly high price to pay for a change in health care that doesn't actually improve anything except for maybe a tiny percentage of people.

Let's not forget that it's called the "Affordable Care Act". The claimed objective was to lower costs. I'd say that they failed quite miserably at that.
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Stalker rdmcandie wrote:
Pretty reasonable "tax" to be quite honest. It will get cheaper as the private industry losses control over medical care costs as well. Once the government standardizes costs, the overall effective cost to the tax payer will drop closer to other G8 nations. Assuming of course your congress doesn't go full ****** and pretend they can have a nationwide medical plan, coexist with private medical pricing...in that case the private market will continue to rape the people of the US blind. Then charge them to double to test their eye sight.


/shrug Some people will think it's reasonable, some wont. But letting people know lets them make their own decision about that. I think a 3% increase in the price of everything is an incredibly high price to pay for a change in health care that doesn't actually improve anything except for maybe a tiny percentage of people.

Let's not forget that it's called the "Affordable Care Act". The claimed objective was to lower costs. I'd say that they failed quite miserably at that.


You know what isn't reasonable.

The tax burden on the US citizen is over twice as much as any other nation in the world for health care, and you have a private system. If costs are so insane with universal health coverage, why is my portion of Health Cost in Canada 3200 bucks, while your portion of Health Cost in US is 7200 bucks (this is 2010 numbers) . Your arguments of cost inflation make no sense when every other G8 nation shows that universal publically controlled health care service keeps overall costs down when compared to a private industry controlled health service.

I know you hate facts and numbers, but you have to be pretty ignorant to argue this. Its not even remotely debatable man.





Edited, Feb 27th 2014 10:56pm by rdmcandie
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gbaji wrote:
I think a 3% increase in the price of everything is an incredibly high price to pay for a change in health care that doesn't actually improve anything except for maybe a tiny percentage of people.
If it helps your health care bill was already covering the cost of my medical plan, so you don't have to pay any extra for that now.
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