Rhetoric vs. Reality: Health Care “Reform” and Jobs
CLAIM: “So this bill is not only about the health security of America. It’s about jobs. In its life it will create 4 million jobs — 400,000 jobs almost immediately.”
— Speaker Pelosi at the White House health summit
FACT: Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana this week announced it would be cutting about fifty jobs due to the health care overhaul, and specifically the low reimbursement rates included in the law’s Medicaid expansion.