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Chris Hayes:
So, with health care exchanges set to open for enrollment on October 1st, we are just eight days away from the effective launch of Obamacare. And while Ted Cruz and his threats are soaking up a lot of attention, it's easy to lose sight of the fact we are very close to a pretty incredible day in the history of American health care.
And so, it is no surprise, the right wing has gone into overdrive in trying to shape the narrative of that day before it happens. Not least by once again sewing the seeds of misinformation about the impact of law.
News anchor:
"We have confirmed more than 100 Emory health care employees are going to lose their jobs in part because of the Affordable Health Care Act."
Hayes:
Turns out, that wasn't so much confirmed as, well, untrue. As The Atlantic pointed out, top officials said the layoffs have nothing to do with Obamacare. That's a quote. and Frum and his allies don't have to it right, either.
...The trend in an increase towards part-time work precedes the passage of Obamacare. We should be clear on this. This is probably a larger structural labor market trend.
Look at this chart. ... There was indeed a huge spike in part-time work, but it came with the great recession in 2008 and the financial crisis:
Since then, involuntary part-time employment, that is, workers who would like to work full-time jobs but are stuck in part-time jobs, has actually trended downward.
This is part and parcel of the broader Republican case against President Obama, which is to basically blame everything that has happened because of the worst financial crisis in seven years, on the president himself.
It isn't to say there aren't employers who say Obamacare is forcing them to cut hours, but as economist Mark Zandi has pointed out, the claim that Obama care is causing some large-scale shift to part-time work is simply not borne out by the data.
If Obamacare is going to be the disaster conservatives say it will, we will all know that very shortly. There is no reason to lie about it ahead of time. If anything, Republicans should be excited for the experiment to start so they can be proven right. The fact that they're so intent on spinning ahead of time shows that they're actually nervous the thing's gonna work.
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