New York Times: Obamacare frees us from our jobs
Yeah, when I first read this, I had to keep checking that it wasn’t written by someone from the Soviet Union’s old state-sponsored Pravda propaganda rag. But, no it’s the New York Times editorial board, writing a piece that would bring tears of joy to the eyes of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
Apparently, the Obamacare-inspired unemployment has liberated us from those pesky job things we used to have;
The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law. Of course, Republicans immediately tried to brand the findings as “devastating” and stark evidence of President Obama’s health care reform as a failure and a job killer. It is no such thing.
The report estimated that — thanks to an increase in insurance coverage under the act and the availability of subsidies to help pay the premiums — many workers who felt obliged to stay in a job that provided health benefits would now be able to leave those jobs or choose to work fewer hours than they otherwise would have. In other words, the report is about the choices workers can make when they are no longer tethered to an employer because of health benefits. The cumulative effect on the labor supply is the equivalent of 2.5 million fewer full-time workers by 2024.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that there will dancing in the streets now that Americans have been freed by having the opportunity to make the choice between food and healthcare. We were told that the new healthcare bill would lower the cost of healthcare, but, it appears that the opposite has happened instead. We were told that it would end unemployment, but, again the opposite has happened. So I guess the only thing left to do is to make unemployment and under employment look like it’s a good thing. Enter the propagandists.
Here’s a screenshot of the headline for posterity;
Category: Health Care debate
I had to keep checking that it wasn’t written by someone from the Soviet Union’s old state-sponsored Pravda propaganda rag. But, no it’s the New York Times editorial board
I’m confused. Are you saying that the NY Times editorial board consists of people who were NOT on Pravda?
Anyway, on more serious matters… I wonder if this board has the same issue with lists of numbers using ) to identify the item…
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Nope, I guess not. On other boards I’ve seen 8) appear as a smiley with sunglasses.
THE LIBERAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
I pledge allegiance
to the agenda
of 0bama, Pelosi, and Reid.
And to the confiscation
of wealth and success
higher taxes,
more regulation,
with poverty and Government dependence for all.
At this time, I think even George Orwell would be spinning in his grave.
As a side connect, I’ll believe in Teh Dear Leader’s blather about “equality of outcome (or is that income?)”, when I receive my first personal check from Obaomao, Pelousy, and/or Dingy Harry the MINO (Mormon In Name Only).
I never will, nor have I ever taken advice from a full grown man wearing what appears to be footie pajamas.
@47:
As an American who now carries Israeli citizenship and calls Israel my home, I’ll say this:
Unlike Obamallamacare, healthcare in Israel really is inexpensive, and employers don’t have to choose between keeping their fulltime employees or avoiding ridiculous insurance costs. Insurance is heavily subsidized by the government, though the individual still needs to pay a (relatively tiny) monthly fee.
Job A provides a salary of X, but no health benefits.
Job B provides a salary of Y, with full health coverage.
If you feel you need health insurance and if X – the cost of purchasing health insurance > Y, then all else being equal you are better off taking Job A. Forcing people at gunpoint to purchase health insurance doesn’t change anything in that equation.