Obamacare Critics Aren't Telling The Whole Story

Taken to extremes, the work ethic becomes grotesque.

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"The economics profession is famous for its balance--as the joke goes, we always need more hands to express all the caveats to our conclusions. ("On the other hand ... and on the other hand ... and on the other hand...") That is why arguments about last week's report from the Congressional Budget Office have become so frustrating, even when accomplished scholars are the ones doing the arguing. Instead of addressing a subtle and complicated issue with (at least!) two sides, the law's critics keep turning it into a single-sided moral diatribe about the work ethic and the supposed damage Obamacare is doing to it." Jonathan Gruber in The New Republic.