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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (733866)8/21/2013 12:50:52 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 1583553
 
No, Health Care Premiums Are Not Soaring and Full-Time Jobs Are Not Disappearing

—By Kevin Drum
Tue Aug. 20, 2013 6:31 PM PDT

John Boehner today, explaining the GOP's strategy on Obamacare:

[We're] looking at all options to reach our ultimate goal of repealing this law that is causing premiums to soar and full-time jobs to disappear.

Now let's leave fantasyland and see what's happening in the real world. Here is the Kaiser Family Foundation's latest data on premiums:

Health-insurance premiums to cover working Americans rose 4 percent this year, less than the previous two years in another sign that the cost of employee benefits for U.S. companies may be slowing.

And here's how full-time employment has fared in the three years since Obamacare was passed:



More here on the supposed implosion of full-time jobs thanks to Obamacare. As with the soaring premiums, it just hasn't happened. You probably won't hear about this on Fox News, though.
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