Posted on 10/15/2010 8:11:26 AM PDT by Nachum
On September 23, the calendar signaled it was time for a six-month anniversary celebration of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka PPACA. (No similar salute was planned for the end of the month, for the bill’s accompanying reconciliation provisions, which were signed into law a week later, on March 30). Not only did the honeymoon never get started, growing numbers of voters are checking out the terms of the pre-nuptial agreement and considering options ranging from trial separation to annulment.
With the Obama administration suffering low approval ratings not just for botched healthcare reform, but also for a sluggish economy, what was it to do? Perhaps try out the latest audacity of hype and spin PPACA as a jobs-creating machine.
That was the backdrop to my appearance several weeks ago on a panel at a “Prescription for Growth” event organized by the National Journal. The starting point was that healthcare is projected to be one of the fastest-growing segments in the job market in coming years. The question was whether the recent healthcare legislation will accelerate growth in health-related sectors of the economy and whether the right jobs are being created.
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