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another Obamacare myth that is important to tackle
and to be perfectly clear the impetus for tackling Obamacare Mets
is not pretend that Obamacare is a miraculous perfect change to the health
insurance system
it is merely that we should be having debates on the merits
and on the program on the structure and not
over hyperbole or sidebar issues so having gotten the website thing out of
the way let's now go into
a more specific a criticism Obamacare as a program in it economic effect
and we have this myth was that Obamacare
is destroying full-time jobs
and creating lots love part-time
jobs and this is something that is
flat-out not true lets actually look at the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics
household survey
which shows that in September part time jobs fell
by five hundred ninety four thousand while
all-time workers increased by six hundred
+91 thousand separate issue from whether you believe that these job creation
numbers are sufficient or not
separate issue from whether a
you think that we should be creating even more jobs are stimulating job
creation in a different way
the specific argument were looking at is that Obamacare is destroying full-time
jobs in creating part time jobs
specifically Louis because employers can
based on the number of employees they have avoid having to provide them with
health insurance
if they are part-time or working under 35 hours per week
it turns out again Lewis that the numbers just don't support this claim
no not the not at first glance anyway of course we are gonna need to wait a
little longer to get to see for sure
and hope we we have some larger numbers to work with bright
I am guessing that it will continue along this pattern
well I actually wanna address Lewis's comment because it really gets me into
the next thing which is
we initially heard the I'm going to point out he is something called
the ad hoc rescue logical fallacy that a lot of people are doing in Lewis
Louis is really just being open minded he's not actually doing this in the way
that a lot of right-wingers are
but their are initially the argument was in the year lead-up to Obamacare we are
going to see
full-time jobs deteriorate part-time job increase because employers are going to
be setting up
a ways to avoid having to provide health insurance once we present these numbers
to right-wingers who are very much against Obamacare
a lot of them are saying much more aggressively what Louis said which is
you
idiots these numbers mean nothing you actually have to wait
until Obamacare has been in place for a year or two
because all the employers are just waiting to see what will happen
now at its face this is ridiculous because we we know so much about
Obamacare
we know what premiums will cost enrollment has opened we've had now
over a year for employers to figure out what they're going to do run number so
on and so forth that makes no sense
and this is the ad hoc rescue their I'm sure you had conversations like this
with people Louis
I'm hey you know what I just know that Stacy is just waiting to ask me out
really because at stacey has been going out with someone else for three months
now
yeah I know but stacy's doing that just to make me jealous
so that then later we'll get together really because they just got engaged
well that's just her way of making sure that I really know
that I should be trying to get together with you soon its you make a you make a
statement
and then it's pointed out to be clearly not not not buyable so you add something
you
ad hoc add stipulations to try to rescue your argument this happens a lot with
religious arguments Louis to for example
I hate great news my cancer got better
someone says to you great I was praying for you and my praying worked
got he'll do you well what about all those hungry and sick children around
around the world that are also being prayed for
and they're not getting anything well God can help everyone
but I thought God was all-powerful
well they must have not really wanted their prayers to come true enough that
must have been what it was
you've gotta know this logical fallacy you have to identify
you cannot allow people to bamboozle you with this ad hoc rescue
we see this one so much Louis we do and we still do have numbers and facts here
and and they do
account for something