Companies are cutting workers to part time, to exploit a loophole in Obama's health care law.

This is because the law does not go far enough. The state should provide health care for everyone, employed or not, and get the money (which will be much less than it costs now) by taxes that have nothing to do with employment.

Social Security should also be handled this way. Taxing businesses based on employment in the US gives them an incentive to employ fewer people in the US.