[tyxodiwktis]

When the ACA passed, mandating that large employers offer health insurance to all full time employees, there was a massive push by large employers in retail and food service to cap people's hours and make sure very few qualified as full time. This was because health insurance costs employers about $10k per employee per year, and if you are paying someone $10/hr ($20k/yr at 40hrs a week), raising labor costs 50% is a nonstarter.

An outcome like that may be possible here as an unintended consequence, with Uber and Lyft capping most drivers at 20hrs a week, and full time drivers splitting their time between the two (20hrs for each).

[Animats]

Yes, that needs to prorate based on hours worked, rather than being a threshold.

[avocado4]

Real solution is universal healthcare.

[dehrmann]

The problem is that health care is attached to employment. The solution might take the form of universal health care, it might be not-so-universal private health care, it might be some hybrid. But don't gloss over what the problem is because you'll lose common ground with people and end up arguing over the solution and not agreeing that there's a problem.

[delfinom]

>raising labor costs 50% is a nonstarter.

This is where one can say sure. But in reality with the lack of public healthcare, it's just hiding an large cost on society when the person ends up running up medical bills and is unable to pay.