'Obamacare' Is not a 'job killer.' It actually creates jobs-- millions of them.

BRIAN WILLIAMS: And yet, respectfully, the first thing you're doing after the reading of the Constitution is bringing so called "Obamacare," the Obama health plan up for a vote. It's been called a stunt. Because it can pass the Republican House, but it's certain to fail, if not in the Democratic Senate, it won't survive a veto. Why spend the valuable time of your beloved House of Representatives that way?

JOHN BOEHNER: You have to understand that in my opinion Obamacare is the biggest job killer we have in America today. It's a weight over every employer that we have. Thereby requiring them to hold back their willingness to hire people. Secondly, I believe that Obamacare will ruin the best health care delivery system in the world. And then thirdly, I think it'll bankrupt our country. On September 24th, when we rolled out our Pledge to America, we made clear that we wanted to repeal Obamacare. We are going to do what we said we were going to do.

And I can't predict what'll happen in the Senate. I can't predict what the President will do. But if you believe as I do the job-killing aspects of this, what it'll do to our health care system and what it'll do to the financials of our country. I think we have to do everything we can to make sure that this never ever gets fulfilled.

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Two points. What do you say to those who would disagree that it was the best health care delivery system in the world? Because they, by the millions, weren't getting it? And second, where are you getting the notion, as you said again this morning, the American people want it repealed? Our exit polling was about 48-47. Very evenly split on that.

JOHN BOEHNER: I've talked to tens of thousands of people, all across the country last year, as I was out helping my candidates. I've been from one corner of my district to the other. And it's pretty clear to me that this law ought to be repealed. The job-killing aspects, the cost of it, and what it's gonna do to the delivery. And while, yes, not every American had fair access to affordable health insurance, every American had access to the best health care delivery system in the world.

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More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare

The first statistics are coming in and, to the surprise of a great many, Obamacare might just be working to bring health care to working Americans precisely as promised.

The major health insurance companies around the country are reporting a significant increase in small businesses offering health care benefits to their employees.

Why?

Because the tax cut created in the new health care reform law providing small businesses with an incentive to give health benefits to employees is working.

We certainly did not expect to see this in this economy,” said Gary Claxton, who oversees an annual survey of employer health plans for the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. “It’s surprising.”



How significant is the impact? While we won’t have full national numbers until small businesses file their 2010 tax returns this April, the anecdotal evidence is as meaningful as it is unexpected.

United Health Group, Inc., the nation’s largest health insurer, added 75,000 new customers working in businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

Coventry Health Care, Inc., a large provider of health insurance to small businesses, added 115,000 new workers in 2010 representing an 8% jump.

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