The ACA Isn't a Poverty Trap

During a hearing today on the latest CBO report, Rep. Paul Ryan declared the health care law to be “a poverty trap.”  He’s way off base.  In fact, he’s got it backwards.

Rep. Ryan was riffing off of the estimates in the new CBO study predicting that some people—the equivalent of 2.5 million full-timers by 2024—will choose to work less to avoid having the ACA subsidy reduced as their earnings rise.

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