Posted on February 4, 2014

White House: 2.5 Million Fewer Workers From Obamacare A "Small Percentage Of Economy"

ALEXIS SIMENDINGER, REALCLEARPOLITICS: Medicare and Social Security are aimed at, primarily, people of a certain age, seniors. So when you talk about older people, that's a whole separate equation than the ACA. This is a group of human beings who are in a program that are of all ages.



JASON FURMAN, WHITE HOUSE: First of all, this number itself is a small percentage of the overall economy. Second of all, this number itself is about, effectively, choices of people. And third, it doesn't reflect the full set of factors that go into it.