Monday, July 29, 2013

It Is Not Good News That Obamacare Will Create Lots of Jobs to Steer People Through the System

"Which way is up?" reporting makes a big-time appearance in this Washington Post article telling us that Obamacare will create a boom in jobs since workers will have to be hired to steer people through the system. The article reports:
"About 7,000 to 9,000 new customer service agents will be needed to man phones and Web chats for the marketplace, called an exchange, the federal government will run for more than half of the states, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said. Additional agents will be needed for exchanges run by the states themselves."
The next paragraph raises the stakes to:
"Altogether, tens of thousands of people could be hired over the next several years to set up and support the online marketplaces, according to some estimates."

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/it-is-not-good-news-that-obamacare-will-create-lots-of-jobs-to-steer-people-through-the-system 

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