House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued during the health care summit that the health care bill, if passed, will essentially erase the past two years’ job losses and create over 4 million jobs for Americans (many of them “immediately”) — a stunning figure that’s either untrue or indicative of an unprecedented expansion in the government’s bureaucratic control over the health care sector.
The argument is an attempt by Democratic leaders to associate the costly health care bill with an issue many politicians and constituents feel is more pressing: jobs creation.
During the State of the Union address, the president insisted that the $787 billion stimulus bill has saved two million jobs, and he promised 1.5 million jobs would either be created or saved by 2011.
“This is a welcome change in focus after the president and his administration spent nearly an entire year pursuing a partisan health-care plan that would have spent trillions of dollars we don’t have,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said at the time.
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