Jon Stewart skewered Obamacare opponents on Thursday for decrying the law’s employer mandate.
The Affordable Care Act requires businesses with more than 50 employees to provide health care coverage to all full-time workers or pay a penalty, a provision that conservatives have decried as a job killer. But as Stewart noted, the $2,000 penalty to be imposed on employers is much less than the roughly $10,000 it costs to provide health care to each worker.
“So, if you’re a corporation you could do the right thing, the moral thing, spend about $10,000 to give your employees health insurance or you could save about eight grand and tell your employees to go f*ck themselves,” Stewart said.
