Look no further than Wake County Public Schools for what’s to come for employers and employees, thanks to the gigantic government intrusion called ObamaCare. The News & Observer reports the school system is thinking about cutting back hours for substitute teachers in order to keep the teachers under 30 hours, which means the system would not have to provide costly ObamaCare-compliant health insurance. They’re certainly not alone. Business after business across the country is doing the same thing to avoid massive new  business costs that threaten to cripple operations.

Wake is considering restricting its 3,300-plus substitutes to working less than 30 hours a week, effective July 1.

The reason: If just a third of the system’s subs were to qualify for employer-sponsored insurance, it would cost Wake schools about $5.2 million, chief business officer David Neter said.

“We’ll have some difficult decisions to make,” Neter said. “Something else would have to get cut. It’s equivalent to 20 full-time teachers or 40 teaching assistants. That’s how significant it is.”

What a shame. The hours of a substitute teacher should be driven by the need for a substitute teacher — but not in the age of ObamaCare.