The Coming ObamaCare Layoffs

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What good does it do to force businesses to provide the best health care to its employees if fewer Americans have a job? If the national health care bill currently pending before Congress becomes law, more than a million Americans may soon learn.

Perversely, President Obama’s top priority of providing government-run health care for all could cause another chief national concern—unemployment—to surge. One key provision alone could cause as many as 1.6 million Americans to lose their jobs during the first five years of such a new national health care mandate. The fact that a major element of universal health care would lead to fewer jobs is little recognized and never mentioned by the eager backers of what could transform America’s prized health system into socialized medicine.

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