FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key

Published February 6, 2014 8:12am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — New estimates that President Barack Obama’s health care law will encourage millions of Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who’ve claimed all along that the law will kill jobs. But some aren’t telling it straight.

The analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts the law will give several million people an opportunity to work less or not at all, because they won’t be stuck in jobs just for the sake of keeping the health insurance they get from employers. To some Republicans, that amounts to “wreaking havoc on working families,” ”dire consequences for workers” and a shower of pink slips across the land — conclusions unsupported by the report.

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