Statement by the White House Press Secretary on Today’s CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act

by Gary Kopycinski on February 4, 2014

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 4, 2014.

Since the Affordable Care Act passed into law in March 2010 the private sector has added 8.1 million jobs. That is the strongest 45 month job growth since the late 1990s and contrasts with the 3.8 million private sector jobs lost in the decade before the Affordable Care Act passed.

Claims that the Affordable Care Act hurts jobs are simply belied by the facts in the CBO report. CBO’s findings are…