Friday, February 14, 2014

We're looking at 2.5 million discouraged workers thanks to ObamaCare!

Fox News ^ | February 13, 2014 | John Lott

Tens of millions have lost their health insurance or will very soon lose it.
ObamaCare enrollees are being turned away from doctors’ offices. Health insurance premiums are soaring. Others can no longer receive care at top hospitals. Personal information is being stolen from the ObamaCare website. The list of problems goes on and on. To add to that list of problems we now find that ObamaCare will discourage 2.5 million Americans from working, reducing our national income and increasing the deficit. Almost four years after ObamaCare was enacted, Congressional Budget Office finally decided: “In producing this year’s projections, one area on which we focused was the labor market . . . .” In the rush to pass ObamaCare, CBO justifies ignoring these considerations because ObamaCare’s regulations “were still in the process of being developed.” Unfortunately, there is a real pattern where the CBO’s initial estimates for ObamaCare’s impact on spending, tax revenue, and deficits have proven to be far too optimistic. Mistakes in initial estimates consistently worked to make it easier to pass ObamaCare. As if the nanny state hasn’t gotten out of hand . . . .

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