Some Obamacare opponents have labeled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a job-killer. New research indicates there may be a grain of truth to that — although the jobs won't be "lost" the way the naysayers are predicting.

Rather, workers who are today in the workforce primarily as a means of obtaining affordable health care coverage will likely quit working, either temporarily or permanently.

That's the prediction of research by a triumvirate of academicians, in a study spearheaded by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, with contributions from others at Columbia University and Northwestern.