Fact: "Private Employers Have Added 1.1 Million Jobs Since the Affordable Care Act Became Law"

[Clio the Leo]

(and read between the lines, Pelosi is bending the truth EVER so slightly for the purposes of political spin. One car argue the ethics of this but no one can argue the effectiveness of it, esp. not the GOP who has raised such tactics to an art form. MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!!)

[DrToast]

1. Huh?

Pelosi is bending the truth EVER so slightly for the purposes of political spin.

How so?

[Clio the Leo]

2. The jobs created didn't come directly from the health care bill...

.... as the the graph implies upon first glance. The whole point is that the GOP is saying the bill is a "job killer" (or whatever they're calling it today) and, in reality, private job creation has gone UP since the since the bill became law. Hey, I'm not knocking it, we have needed this approach all along.

[DrToast]

4. No, job creation wasn't caused by the bill

But, as you say, the point is that it hasn't killed jobs, as the GOP claimed it would.

[vaberella]

5. You're slightly incorrect. There will be small percentage of job loss--but that's in the long run.

We have to wait about 10+ years down the line before here's a monitor on job loss. You won't be able to start projecting it now. And the job loss is not real job loss it's the higher level of retirees due to better paying jobs and early retirement. This was explained either on Maddow's or KO's show. I think it was KO.

[joeglow3]

6. No way to prove it....so the rhetoric will continue

Republicans will claim we would have added MORE jobs if not for the bill. But to be fair, Obama used the same tactic when he said he saved "x" amount of jobs (instead of us losing MORE jobs). Just typical politics...

[dflprincess]

3. I know the daily alerts I get from Monster.com

are 90% jobs at UnitedHealth Group.