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Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news
LA Times ^ | 2-4-2014 | Michael Hiltzik

Posted on 02/05/2014 6:04:56 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

The Congressional Budget Office is out with its latest report on the Affordable Care Act, and here are a few bottom lines:

— The ACA is cheaper than it expected.

— It will "markedly increase" the number of Americans with health insurance.

— The risk-adjustment provisions, which Congressional Republicans want to overturn as a "bailout" of the insurance industry, will actually turn a profit to the U.S. Treasury.

Given all this, why are the first news headlines on the CBO report depicting it as calling Obamacare a job killer?

(snip) ..... it's important to examine what the CBO actually says about the ACA's impact on the labor market.

The CBO projects that the act will reduce the supply of labor, not the availability of jobs. There's a big difference. In fact, it suggests that aggregate demand for labor (that is, the number of jobs) will increase, not decrease; but that many workers or would-be workers will be prompted by the ACA to leave the labor force, many of them voluntarily.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbo; jobs; laborforce; obamacare; obs; unemployment
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To: Sir Napsalot

Sell’in day for night


21 posted on 02/05/2014 6:16:31 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (Life is way too short to suffer fools long.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

This is nuts but I expect no less from progressives


22 posted on 02/05/2014 6:16:56 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Media, scribes for the Oligarch

Here is another view of same issue:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/04/heres-how-the-white-house-is-attempting-to-spin-damaging-nonpartisan-cbo-report-on-obamacare/


23 posted on 02/05/2014 6:18:41 AM PST by edcoil ( "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal)
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To: Sir Napsalot
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24 posted on 02/05/2014 6:19:34 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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25 posted on 02/05/2014 6:21:06 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sir Napsalot

Just read Hiltzik’s bio, seems he was reprimanded by his own LA Times a while back for posting comments on his own blog and website using fictitious names. Hmmmmmmmm. Sounds like the typical Pulitzer Prize winner.


26 posted on 02/05/2014 6:21:16 AM PST by ImNotLying (The Right To Bear Arms: Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless!)
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27 posted on 02/05/2014 6:23:05 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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28 posted on 02/05/2014 6:25:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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29 posted on 02/05/2014 6:26:44 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: 43north

So my country is now under the complete control of delusional people.

Thanks, that makes me feel SO much better! /sarc


30 posted on 02/05/2014 6:35:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: sickoflibs

But healthcare is only one issue. Who would leave the workforce just because of healthcare? You still have to feed your family, put gas in the car, pay the mortgage/rent, increase retirement funds, etc. Basket-weaving will provide none of that.

I understand that that may be the point: to force everyone to depend on the government for everything eventually. But that way lies madness, of course.


31 posted on 02/05/2014 6:45:20 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Hardastarboard

Welfare is Employment


32 posted on 02/05/2014 6:53:06 AM PST by Flick Lives (Got a problem with the government? Have a complaint. Get a free IRS audit!)
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To: leapfrog0202
You said...
“These people live in some bizarre alternate reality”

It's called Psychological survival. I said in an early thread that the last remaining Hope and Changers don't simple just spin for this administration. They have created a whole new reality for themselves because the real world under Obama is too much for them to face.

The scary part is many of them are in journalism

33 posted on 02/05/2014 6:56:00 AM PST by LMAO (Insurgent conservative)
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To: leapfrog0202

> I checked twice to make sure this wasn’t a satire piece! These people live in some bizarre alternate reality.

Too much spoiling and coddling a child with an education paid for by their rich liberal parents and then not having to really work for a living produces liberal idiots. You see the results of this in Hollywood on a daily basis where they received their position by birthright.


34 posted on 02/05/2014 6:58:07 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Sir Napsalot
The rationale:

Alan Colmes on FoxNews said that the reason for the increase in unemployed:
[They just make it up as they go. It sounds good to them and they think everyone else will buy whatever excuses they come up with. The MSM buy it, of course, but I'm not sure the rest of America are buy it now.]
35 posted on 02/05/2014 7:08:42 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
You said...
[”They just make it up as they go. It sounds good to them and they think everyone else will buy whatever excuses they come up with. The MSM buy it, of course, but I'm not sure the rest of America are buy it now”

I saw a poll a while back were the news media is less trusted than Congress. That's what's frustrating them. The news media is upset because the public ain't buying the spin, anymore.

I've read more than one news outlet trying to claim this CBO report is actually good news. Conservatives should be very optimistic. When they are reduced to claiming that more ObamaCare bad news is actually good, it's further evidence the left is losing control of the narrative and expect the excuses to get more and more ridiculous

36 posted on 02/05/2014 7:24:40 AM PST by LMAO (Insurgent conservative)
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To: SampleMan

“Let’s not forget that the CBO is still garbage-in garbage-out.”

Exactly. The real question is who supplied the scenario?


37 posted on 02/05/2014 7:29:59 AM PST by PLMerite
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To: Sir Napsalot

The really good news is that at least some of the MSM are beginning to question some of the “answers” given by the Regime, when they used to just swoon.


38 posted on 02/05/2014 7:34:01 AM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: Sir Napsalot

More jobs because more part time work, excellent! More projected good news, lower health care costs because of shorter life expectancy.
Leftists really must love death and destruction. Their ideal city is Detroit.


39 posted on 02/05/2014 7:39:23 AM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Bump


40 posted on 02/05/2014 7:45:25 AM PST by lowbridge
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