Under questioning from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) today, Congressional Budget Director Douglas Elmendorf said straight out that Obamacare’s incentives scheme discourages work.
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Elmendorf told Ryan: “By providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with very low incomes and withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act creates a disincentive for people to work relative to what would have been the case in the absence of that act.”
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