According to Inside Higher Education, The Community College of Allegheny County will cut course loads and hours for some 200 adjunct faculty members and 200 additional employees to avoid paying $6 million in Affordable Care Act-related fees in January 2014.

Why are they doing this? Because right now, adjuncts and other temporary workers in higher education who work 30+ hours receive NO HEALTH INSURANCE. They are also paid so poorly that they qualify for food stamps. Cutting back on their hours is the least of these people's problems. 

So, are the adjuncts and temporary faculty who teach the majority of classes at many colleges across the country going to be better off or worse off, because of Obamacare? Better off, because even if they teach one less class, they will qualify for government health insurance. 

Stories like this highlight the hypocrisy and the exploitation that occurs in academia and in the workplace today.