Why is the White House cheering disincentives to work?

The short answer to the headline question is that they don’t have much choice. After years of promising to bend cost curves downward, provide no disruption to existing insurance plans or provider networks, and laughably insisting that ObamaCare would create four million new jobs almost immediately, the latest CBO report on the central “achievement” of Barack Obama and the Democrats leaves them with no fig leaf left to use. The work force will decline by 2.5 million full-time-equivalents, heavily on the lower-income side of the scale, and all of a sudden Democrats have gone from promising massive job expansion to an end to “job lock.” What else can they possibly argue, except that suddenly fewer jobs are great for the economy?
Of course, this is a disaster for upward mobility, which Paul Ryan explained when CBO Director Doug Elmendorf testified that of course subsidies provide a disincentive to work.

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