Huffington Magazine Issue 87 | страница 10

Enter house to sleep off their freak-out. But a new day has dawned, so why is Politico’s “Huddle” newsletter acting like it was born yesterday? The Republicans just got a big gift from the Congressional Budget Office: It’s going to be a lot easier for them to call Obamacare a ‘job killer.’ That’s because the budget office’s new economic report, released Tuesday, says the health care law will cause Americans to work fewer hours - enough to be the equivalent of 2 million fewer jobs in 2017. The latest number is nearly three times as high as the budget office’s previous prediction, and it’s supposed to rise in later years to the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs in 2024. Oh, honey. The Affordable Care Act won’t “cause Americans to work fewer hours.” It will enable workers to make choices they previously weren’t able to make — choices the CBO project