it doesn't say people won't take better paying jobs (or stop working full time) because of subsidies, either.
That's precisely what it says. Unless you have some funky definition of "better paying," the CBO claims that some people will work less in order to make less money, so they can qualify for more subsidies. That's the key. You can sugarcoat it all you want, but people are going to work less in order to get more money from the government.
What they'll stop doing is trying to juggle multiple low income jobs because ...
Some will, I'm sure. But that still qualifies as making less money so they can get more subsidies from the government.
Or someone who can retire will now actually retire because their medicaid actually pays for their medical care.
You mean someone who can't retire, now can, because they are getting subsidies (or medicaid). What the CBO is not taking into account, which you seem to think it is, is the effect of having more access to health insurance outside of employment based insurance.
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Date: 11/2/14 13:53 (UTC)That's precisely what it says. Unless you have some funky definition of "better paying," the CBO claims that some people will work less in order to make less money, so they can qualify for more subsidies. That's the key. You can sugarcoat it all you want, but people are going to work less in order to get more money from the government.
What they'll stop doing is trying to juggle multiple low income jobs because ...
Some will, I'm sure. But that still qualifies as making less money so they can get more subsidies from the government.
Or someone who can retire will now actually retire because their medicaid actually pays for their medical care.
You mean someone who can't retire, now can, because they are getting subsidies (or medicaid). What the CBO is not taking into account, which you seem to think it is, is the effect of having more access to health insurance outside of employment based insurance.