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Health Care Law’s Definition of Full Time Needs Revising B Y S E N . J O E D O N N E L LY ( D - I N D . ) I 2015 Issue 1 | THE SCORE 16 n Muncie, Indiana, the local school board voted in August to limit Muncie Community School part-time staffers to working no more than 29 hours a week. The owner of five BURGER KING® franchises in North Carolina said he may be forced to shift many workers to under 30 hours a week. And an IHOP franchise owner in Terre Haute, Indiana, said some restaurant owners have worried about how they will continue to offer health care insurance. We are a stronger country when people have access to quality, affordable health care. More Americans are getting access to health care under the Affordable Care Act, but there are still issues we need to address. Some on the left say we should not change anything and others on the right say we should repeal the whole bill. I believe we can address challenges with the Affordable Care Act in a constructive way by working in a bipartisan manner to improve parts of the law that need fixing while keeping the parts that work so the law works better for American families and businesses. The law should reflect the reality and challenges employers across the country face every day—and that starts with defining full-time work. Common w