Comments on: MILLENNIAL GENERATION TO OBAMA: “I DON’T NEED YOUR HEALTH CARE LAW. I NEED A JOB.”

By: nyp

nyp — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:49:55 +0000

The CBO said that over a ten year period 1/2 of one percent of the workforce would find that the lower premiums for individual policies would justify leaving jobs that they had taken solely to access a group policy. Think of a married woman in her late fifties with a history of breast cancer. Today, she can’t access health insurance in the individual market, so she has to take a job in order to take advantage of the group plan. Or a mom who wants to home school her kids but can’t do so because her husband’s job doesn’t offer adequate insurance. if pre-existing condition exclusions are eliminated, and individual rates are reduced, these folks may choose to leave their current jobs. That is precisely what CBO was saying in the analysis that was so badly distorted into the “800,000 jobs lost” meme.

By: Brady Bere

Brady Bere — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:22 +0000

They will leave their current jobs for other ones, so there is no net increase in “job opportunities for younger people.” Jobs will be lost because companies cannot afford to hire if they must pay more for benefits. They will either stay the same, or they will hire part-time, or they will utilize technology to avoid hiring people. Nobody is going to quit their job because Obamacare gives them health insurance. That does not make sense.

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:27:03 +0000

Not very pleasant to see you joining in the brainwashing of young people David – as usual, the truth is the reverse, as this ’800,000′ is an estimate of people who will leave jobs because they don’t need to hang on for health insurance. So job opportunities for younger people will increase.