'Job-killing' Obamacare actually created 240,000 well-paying healthcare jobs

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http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-jobs-20170407-story.html

Of all the shibboleths used to denigrate the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the most persistent is to label it a “job-killer.”

The label was strong on the wing during the presidential campaign, when one could hear it uttered by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who called it “the biggest job-killer in this country,” and Donald Trump, who said repealing the law would save “2 million American jobs.” The notion had a long history: In January 2011, only a few months after the law had been passed and three years before its major provisions went into effect, the newly Republican House was trying to pass a measure entitled the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”

This attack on the ACA never was based on facts. But a new report from the Altarum Institute, a nonprofit healthcare think tank in Ann Arbor, Mich., adds evidence that, in fact, the law is a job-creator. From 2014 through 2016, the researchers found, the law triggered the creation of 240,000 jobs in the healthcare field alone. The main reason is that increased insurance enrollments spurred more demand for healthcare services.

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1. the medical sector in chi is BIG.

they are all decent jobs, even the basics, housekeeping, etc.
w a shift differential of 15% most of the time for the graveyard, you might actually feed your family.
but the rest- nurses, techs, and doctors, doctors, doctors, come on man. these are real money, high tech jobs.

one of many reasons chi is not detroit is the size of the medical and university sector.