Jennifer Rubin makes a thought provoking point: Obamacare is bad for work
1. Obamacare was sold as a means of promoting job mobility, delinking insurance from work. Now the White House says it is delinking workers from work. At the opening of the Budget Committee hearing this morning, Chairman Paul Ryan remarked that “what is particularly troubling is CBO’s projection of labor-force participation. CBO says that about half of this decline is attributable to the aging of the population—most notably the retirement of the baby-boom generation. But CBO also says that government policies, especially the President’s health-care law, are discouraging work. Washington is making this problem worse. This does not have to be our fate. We need to reverse this decline.â€
Remember, one of the big pushes was insurance portability, not having to lose your insurance if you switched jobs. Now, people aren’t going to be worried about working.
She also notes several other great points. Check then out.
