The White House insists that the health-care law has not affected hiring. That's
not what the numbers show.
There are times when the Obama administration makes
statements so disconnected from economic reality that you wonder if any White
House official has talked with anyone in business. A case in point: the
administration's mantra that ObamaCare's definition of full-time employment as
30 or more hours per week had no effect on employers' hiring practices.
We heard it Monday night on
"The Daily Show" when Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
told Jon Stewart: "At least the economists,
not anecdotal folks, but economists, say there is absolutely no evidence that
part-time work is going up. In fact, it's going down." We've been hearing that
sort of thing for months—in July, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that data failed to support "the
proposition that businesses are not hiring full-time employees because of the
Affordable Care Act." The president himself added to the wonder on Sept. 26,
stating that "there's no widespread evidence" that ObamaCare is hurting
jobs.
As the CEO of a company that has been dealing with
ObamaCare for over three years, I'd like to set the record straight: The
evidence that ObamaCare is having a negative impact on hiring is unequivocal,
abundant and consistent with common sense.
The White House has been given cover on this matter by
the president's Council of Economic Advisers, which in September declared that
"of the increase in employment since the Affordable Care Act became law, more
than 9 out of 10 positions have been full-time."
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