"Obamacare Will Kill 800,000 Jobs": CBO Chief Testifies To Congress (VIDEO)

Video - CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf before Congress - Feb. 10, 2011

Keep in mind as you watch that CBO is an independent arm of Congress that is without political affiliation.  They work with numbers and facts, not spin.

According to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, the effecitve increase in the marginal tax rate that comes with the implimentation of the health care reform bill will reduce labor market participation to the tune of approximately 800,000 jobs. 

In other words, people on the margin will game the system in trying to weigh the extra income from working more hours with the greater health care insurance subsidies that come with working less. 

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Partial Transcript:

Rep. John Campbell: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, we'll -- and Dr. Elmendorf -- and we'll continue this conversation right now. First on health care, before I get to -- before I get to broader issues, you just mentioned that you believe -- or that in your estimate, that the health care law would reduce the labor used in the economy by about 1/2 of 1 percent, given that, I believe you say, there's 160 million full-time people working in '20-'21.  That means that, in your estimation, the health care law would reduce employment by 800,000 in '20-'21. Is that correct? 

CBO Director Elmendorf: Yes. The way I would put it is that we do estimate, as you said, that...employment will be about 160 million by the end of the decade.  Half a percent of that is 800,000.

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Read More Here...

• Grim Diagnosis - Federal Health Care Law - Senators Coburn & Barrosso

• CBO Budget and Economic Outlook - Update (see p 67)

• Congressional Report - Obamacare Costs America Nearly 800,000 Jobs

• The Time Magazine Federal Reserve Slideshow

Comments

[Benny and the Talibanks]

Sorry, I just threw up. John "Bailout" Campbell has voted for every single bailout including the 1/2 trillion dollar bush bailout and the 3/4 trillion dollar obama bailout. I know the howard jarvis taxpayer association always calls John "Bailout" Campbell a fiscal conservative but the howard jarvis taxpayer association is just a bunch of orange county republican hacks with no real values. If we could imprison John "Bailout" Campbell we could have paid for health care for the entire middle class for the next several decades. Instead we get to pay banks and illegal immigrants.

I HATE you John "Bailout" Campbell.

[Dr. Pitchfork]

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[rhubarb]

..........regarding the "Sick Joke" Obamacare skit......and the American people are going to sit back and allow government judicial system now to play around with repeal for the next 15 years????? how stupid can we be ????????? we need to come out in droves on this and get'er done.........repeal the thing, bury it, get rid of anyone in office that is pro, just shows the IQ of the person who dreamed it up........ it does nothing to progress or even help health care in our nation!!!!! GOOD LORD !!!

[Cheyenne]

Jobs? Fuck jobs! Who cares about a million new unemployed people?!

Thie gun-to-the-head legislation was needed to help out medical fleecing factories like UnitedHealthcare grow it stock price and pay bonuses. And it worked, too, damnit, doubling the company's share price since Obamneycare passed:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=UNH&a=02&b=19&c=2010&d=05&e=28&f=2012&g=m

Jobs. You kill me.

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