What’s interesting in the news today?
1. The scariest part of this is that the CBO tends to under-estimate.
From TheWashingtonTimes “Obamacare will push the equivalent of about 2 million workers out of the labor market by 2017 as employees decide either to work fewer hours or drop out altogether, according to the latest estimates Tuesday from the Congressional Budget Office.
That’s a major jump in the nonpartisan budget agency’s projections and it suggests the health care law’s incentives are driving businesses and people to choose government-sponsored benefits rather than work.
“CBO estimates that the ACA will reduce the total number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5 to 2 percent during the period from 2017 to 2024, almost entirely because workers will choose to supply less labor — given the new taxes and other incentives they will face and the financial benefits some will receive,” CBO analysts wrote in their new economic outlook.”
And just as a reminder, this isn’t what they said would happen. In fact, quite the opposite. I’ll let Nancy remind you what was promised. She said it would create 4 million jobs, 400,000 of them immediately. Yet another ObamaCare lie.
Yeah, accountability for insurance companies, but not you, right Nancy?
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2. The White House and Harry Reid are calling this news a success, because even though they’ll lose their jobs, as a consolation prize they’ll still be able to take their policy with them.
If they can afford it, which will be tough with no job. 🙄
From 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 gripes 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 choose 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.”
That’s some serious spin there. Wow.
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3. Oh look, ObamaCare fraud. That didn’t take long. One govt. agency defrauding another.
From KATUNews “You already know the process that led to the failed rollout of the Cover Oregon website was bad. But was it criminally bad?
Former Republican state Rep. Patrick Sheehan told the KATU Investigators he has gone to the FBI with allegations that Cover Oregon project managers initiated the design of dummy web pages to convince the federal government the project was further along than it actually was.
If Sheehan’s allegations are true, those managers could face time in jail for fraud.
“One of the allegations that was made was so alarming that it went way beyond a legislative oversight committee and so I did reach out and contact the FBI,” Sheehan said.”
Well if they’re going to jail for overstating the readiness of the state exchange, shouldn’t Sebelius, Obama, and Dems for the same type of thing on the federal level? 🙂
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4. Is this one an insult to women? They must think very little of you if they believe puppies and kitties is what it will take to get you to sign up for ObamaCare.
From FoxNews “Enroll America, the advocacy group leading efforts to enroll Americans in ObamaCare, is launching a multi-million dollar advertising campaign featuring cats, dogs, birds and other pets in a bid to convince young women to sign up for health coverage, USA Today reported.
With less than two months to go before the March 31 deadline to apply for coverage under ObamaCare, Enroll America officials tell the newspaper 81 percent of the public is unaware of the deadline and 69 percent don’t know that financial aid is available to those earning less than 400 percent of the poverty level.
Enroll America President Anne Filipic told USA Today the pet-themed ads are designed to “help break through the clutter.” She cited statistics showing that more than 60 percent of American homes have a pet and that most female pet owners would risk their lives for their pets. “
Here’s the video from ACORN Enroll America.
Everybody now!!!!
Enroll Today! 🙄
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5. How do you reward the IRS for targeting your political enemies? Like this.
From TheWashingtonTimes “Citing the need to boost employee morale, the Internal Revenue Service’s new commissioner said Monday that he will pay out millions of dollars in bonuses to agency employees, reversing a decision his predecessor made to save money amid the sequester budget cuts and other belt-tightening last year.
The agency remains under fire for targeting tea party groups, but Commissioner John Koskinen said the bonuses are needed to retain and attract good employees in a time of cutbacks.
“This is money best spent on our existing employees,” he said in an email to agency employees. “The performance award payouts are in recognition of that great work done in very trying circumstances. I firmly believe that this investment in our employees will directly benefit taxpayers and the tax system.”
Yep. Great work. Especially the Cincinnati office.
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6. Everyone already knows the Benghazi talking points were altered to benefit Obama’s re-election campaign. Now it looks like we know who altered them.
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Wandering Views 
Puppies and Kitten is less of an insult then the pajama boy the guys got.
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I suppose pajama boy the metrosexual was for some men, but definitely not all men. It certainly didn’t appeal to real men. But still, he’s better than the half naked ones the homosexual crowd got. I would have taken puppies or kitties over what we got. 🙂
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Perception is reality. People perceive Obamacare as a failure and all the spin they put on it or all the advertising dollars they throw at it will not change the perception. Let me tell you, if I could go back 20 or so years ago and be on my dad’s insurance I would be a happy camper. There is a phrase for what this mess is…
Yes, KBells, Puppies and Kittens is a whole lot tamer than “Got Birth Control” as some slimey guy is looking to get lucky. Way to lay all the burden back on the woman. Can’t you just hear some guy tell her girlfriend, “It’s not MY FAULT you got pregnant. The government gives you free birth control. Why didn’t you take it like you were supposed to?”
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Not to mention all the guys who think offering to drive her to the clinic absolves him of all future parental responsibility if she choose to have the baby.
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The first part of this brief article is not so surprising, that a UN committee has found that the Catholic church was negligent in its handling of pedophile priests. But that committee also had something to say about the Catholic church’s policies on birth control & abortion…
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/Pope-Francis-Vatican-UN-Report-Sex-Abuse–243659951.html?_osource=Newltr_Station_Hdlines_Connecticut
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Years ago, when one of my daughters went off to pursue her dream of a music career, we stressed the need of her to find a job that would pay for her health insurance. She would have remained on our policy, if she were still in college. She did not do that and ended up with a few hundred dollar medical bill. It was a good lesson for her. She realized how fast and unexpectedly those bills could pile up. Today, we could tell her to do as she wants, because everyone else will pay those bills should something happen. Something wrong with that.
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1. The CBA is making the economics assumption that people make employment decisions based on immediate economic gain or pain.
2. By linking insurance and employment the US discourages risk taking and flexibility or what some economist call creative destruction. Economist have criticized this linkage for prolonging attachment to declining industries and corporations, By making health insurance affordable outside of work, the ACA will allow for greater economic flexibility — this is a long term benefit of the ACA.
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