Sebelius Claims There Is “Absolutely No Evidence” Obamacare Will Reduce Employment

I don’t know how HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius managed to keep a straight face when she claimed that there is no evidence Obamacare will reduce employment. Thenon-partisan CBO said that the law’s perverse incentives will push Americans out of the labor market, or cause them to reduce their hours. Businesses say they will cut workers’ hours, reduce hiring, or lay people off. But never mind any of that.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says there is “absolutely no evidence” that the Affordable Care Act will drive down employment, despite a report from the Congressional Budget Office released Feb. 4 predicting fewer people would be working.

“There is absolutely no evidence, and every economist will tell you this, that there is any job-loss related to the Affordable Care Act,” Sebelius told reporters in Orlando, Fla., on Monday. “Part-time physicians are actually down since 2010, not up. The number of full-time workers continues to increase. I know that’s a popular myth that continues to be repeated but it just is not accurate.” (Read More)

Bryan Preston asks who are you going to believe,

a politician with a vested interest in supporting a law that she has already botched, or businesses that are just trying to figure out how to make it in Obama’s economy, and the CBO which says Obamacare will cost more than 2 million jobs over the next ten years?

She’s not even an elected politician, she’s an unelected bureaucrat who doesn’t have to answer to anyone. She even said she doesn’t work for us, so what’s it to her if she lies to us? Not that elected politicians have much problem with lying to the people every day.

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