Love Obamacare

[Vance2335]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/05/budget-office-chief-obamacare-creates-disincentive-to-work/

[teko]

President Obama's health care reform law isn't going to kill 2.5 million jobs, Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee on Wednesday.

One day after multiple media outlets misinterpreted a CBO report on Obamacare, Elmendorf clarified the CBO's position during the hearing. The federal agency, Elmendorf said, had found Obamacare “spurs employment and would reduce unemployment over the next few years."

“When you boost demand for labor in this kind of economy, you actually reduce the unemployment rate, because those people who are looking for work can find more work," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) asked Elmendorf.

“Yes, that’s right,” Elmendorf responded.

[teko]

I dont see it as people being less inclined to work. I look at it as people retiring and opening up jobs for others that currently cannot find one maybe? I also do not believe, nor ever have believed that ones healthcare should be tied to their employment. It was not always the case and it made people stay in positions for years and years, hating their job but feeling stuck. Now their healthcare is portable and they can take it with them. I find it ironic that everyone is crying about peoples incentive to work when we are experiencing how many people out of work due to lack of jobs? And where are all those promised jobs anyway?

I have no doubt that the ACA will need tweaking and changing as we go along. No doubt at all. I dont know of a program yet that didnt need tweaking and changing to make it work better.

But the horror stories? Politics, politics and more politics. In my opinion

[specialmom]

While it is your opinion, it may or may not be common sense. :>)  

This article and so many others are the subject and that is lack of motivation they are attributing to the ACA. I didn't make that up.

If it is true, then that is not a great thing.  

Common sense would agree with that, I would think.  

It's not saying that the ACA shouldn't exist ----  it is saying that there is a down side.  And if it results in people being less inclined to work to their full potential, that's a downside.  

[teko]

Oh look at me! late to the party again! lol But I will add my two cents for what its worth, but pretty much see it the very same way as mikesimon. What can I say, I think he is a smart puppy!

Common sense would tell us that without the healthcare being tied to an employer it opens new choices for workers. Gone are the days when we have to stay with an employer we do not like in order to get our healthcare. Is that a bad thing? I dont think so. Also common sense is the fact that the healthcare supplied by an employer was always considered to be part of our pay scale, and without them providing healthcare, the common sense thing to do would be to offer a higher wage in place of the healthcare they are doing away with. So common sense would tell you that if you work for someone who is outing healthcare and blaming it on obamacare, are they offering you compensation to replace it, and if not, why not, and who is the sucker in tha picture? You are! And you cannot blame THAT on obamacare either. Common sense folks?

[Proactive]

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes271025.htm

[specialmom]

Hm.  Well, to me that is life.  I didn't pick my whimsical major in college because the future of being able to support myself was in question with it.  I was practical and picked something I knew I'd make a living at.  To me, that is making good choices and the motivation was the income/benefits I'd receive.  That is how I see the world though.  I knew that I had to choose something that would put me in place to be independent because I was going to be on my own and had to.  

Although I would have made a marvelous interior designer, I'm sure.