Experts on Health Care and the Economy: House Bill’s Employer Mandate Would Have Small Impact on Jobs

By Viveca Novak and Lori Robertson
FactCheck.org

Summary

Would the House-passed health care bill make a tough economy worse and wipe out more jobs, as claimed in a TV ad from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?

Or would it help small business and encourage economic growth, as claimed in an ad sponsored by a big labor union and other supporters of federal efforts to expand health insurance coverage?

Who’s right? Will jobs be lost as…