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The Law of Unintended Circumstances

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About 30 years ago, we were expanding our transportation company (which was related to our health care business) in California.   And, given our philosophy of looking for folks who needed a helping hand, we hired two folks whom we trained to become truck drivers for our firm. They both worked 20 hours a week to start.  Once they acquired enough hours to take the tractor-trailer license test (and passed), we began using them for 35 to 42 hours a week.  When, all of a sudden, one of the drivers announced he was quitting.

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Times a’wasting- and we are the ones who will be hosed

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This looks like it’s going to be a problem.  We have a deadline of 1 January 2014 and we are nowhere close to meeting this goal.  To make matters worse, that is not really the due date, but the drop-dead date, since the states will have to connect by the Fall of 2013 to insure this required start date.  What am I talking about?  The insurance exchanges (part of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act-PPACA [Obamacare] )that are to be operational in each state.  And, that means that the Federal exchange that coordinates these state systems must also be operational.

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