The Left Spins Job Losses Due to ObamaCare as a Good Thing
In the wake of yesterday’s Congressional Budget Report that ObamaCare will cost 2.5 million jobs over the next ten years, the progressive left is spinning like crazy. The first is that people will be liberated from jobs that they hate but were forced to stay at, lest they lose their health insurance. Worked forty hours a week as a shipping clerk but secretly yearned to be a writer of neo-classical poetry that will make angels weep and puppies spontaneously clone themselves with joy? Well, according to outfits like The New York Times, you’re now liberated to chase your dreams, away from the evil shackles of the workaday world. The reason that you’re able to do so is that the government will subsidize your health care, so you can choose where you work and how much you work.
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FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key
New estimates that
President Barack Obama's health care law will encourage millions of
Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched
off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who've claimed all along
that the law will kill jobs. But some aren't telling it straight.
The
analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts the
law will give several million people an opportunity to work less or not
at all, because they won't be stuck in jobs just for the sake of keeping
the health insurance they get from employers. To some Republicans,
that amounts to "wreaking havoc on working families," "dire consequences
for workers" and a shower of pink slips across the land - conclusions
unsupported by the report.
The study estimates
that the workforce will be reduced by the equivalent of 2.3 million
full-time workers by 2021 as people choose to leave it. More would take
early retirement, work fewer hours or otherwise rearrange their
work-home balance to take advantage of new subsidies for health
insurance and new markets for individual policies that don't depend on
having a job.
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