job lock

Research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics uses a large disenrollment from Tennessee's low-income health care coverage program to study the effects of basically free public health insurance on job seeking and employment.  Losing access to free coverage results in people looking for and finding more jobs, largely those with health care coverage.  Getting free coverage means fewer people will work, a consequence the CBO projects in regard to the reform law.  While some idiots decry the terrible problem of people having to work at jobs they don't like to keep health care coverage, we prefer to be concerned about the poor working saps who have to pay exorbitant tax rates to pay for slackers' health care, while their own health care costs skyrocket.