The 2010 health-care reform law commonly known as Obamacare required large companies to provide costly health insurance to their full-time workers. In response, some large companies started preferring to employ part-time workers rather than full-time employees. This is an example of:

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This is a clear example of unintended consequences. The intention of the health-care reform law was to provide health insurance coverage to more employees, but it resulted in large companies preferring to employ part-time workers to avoid the costs of providing health insurance to full-time workers, thus leading to unintended consequences.

The 2010 Health-Care Reform Law Commonly Known as Obamacare Required