Before most Americans had to work for their health benefits, now because of Obamacare you can drop out of the workforce and get free or heavily subsidized care as a result. The White House amazingly considers this a “good” thing.
Via Mediaite:
A Congressional Budget Office report indicating that more than two million Americans will voluntarily leave America’s already reduced workforce because of the options provided in the Affordable Care Act exploded like the bombshell it was on Tuesday.
The White House already has its hands full as the attempt to mollify the concerns of nervous Democrats heading into the 2014 midterm election cycle. Now, Democrats can add the White House’s reaction to this CBO report to their list of grips as they head into political strategy sessions with President Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, the White House called the report misleading and inaccurate, but they also took the odd step of praising the disincentives contained within the ACA to leave the labor market.
Lisa Desjardins reported that the CBO report indicates that more workers will chose to leave the labor market because they no longer have to depend on their employer to provide them with health insurance. She noted that the White House pushed back on that report by claiming that Americans taking advantage of the opportunity to abandon the workforce was a welcome development.
“So, these workers will have a choice that they don’t have now, and that’s what the White House is pointing to as something good in their response to this report,” Desjardins said.