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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will reduce the total number of hours Americans work by the equivalent of 2 million full-time jobs in 2017, mostly among low-wage earners.

The administrations approach to data analysis may be too weak to get good results from experiments aimed at delivering health care services more cheaply and effectively.

The 2014 deficit will shrink to 3 percent of the economy, according to the CBO.

Health plans offered through government-run insurance exchanges may be required to cover 30 percent of essential community providers in each county in 2015.

A White House spokesman says the number appears to be manageable.

Studies continue to turn up evidence that the new enrollees either dont understand the benefits or dont trust what their insurance promises.