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If you thought Obamacare would create jobs, boy, were you wrong. Obamacare’s critics warned that its new mandates and deep cuts in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements would result in up to 93,000 jobs being lost in the health care field alone. Well, it’s already starting. This week, Orlando Health, a major Florida not-for-profit health care network, began cutting up to 400 jobs, the biggest cutback in its history. And we’ve already heard about the downsizing and reductions in hours at small businesses coast to coast. But at least Obamacare will create jobs in one industry: tax law. This week, the IRS issued the first of many, many Obamacare-related rules to come. They’re to clarify the new 3.8 percent tax on investment income to help fund health care. And they run for – brace yourself - 159 pages. Only the federal government could call 159 pages of gobbledygook a “clarification.”

And this just a start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The elimination of jobs will occur in two phases and represents a 2 percent to 3 percent reduction in the system's 16,000-person work force, said Orlando Health spokeswoman Kena Lewis. The cuts affect all departments and all eight of the system's hospitals, including Orlando Regional Medical Center and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, two of the system's better-known facilities.

Although no staff nursing positions have been eliminated, the hospital has cut nursing management positions. Those workers may apply for lower-level nursing jobs.

The first wave of employees affected received their notices Friday, Lewis said. The next wave of downsizing will occur after the first of the year.

The non-profit health network also will reduce staffing through attrition, she said.

Another part of the system's five-point cost restructuring includes eliminating "admirable but not sustainable" programs, Lewis said. The hospital also will work to standardize certain health-care procedures.

The hospital is cutting supply expenses by consolidating pharmaceutical purchases through one wholesaler and by renegotiating contracts for cardiac pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. Those two measures combined will result in an annual savings of $825,000, Lewis said.

The hospital will also delay capital spending, she said.

However, the hospital system will move forward with its $300 million expansion and renovation of Orlando Regional Medical Center, which is under way, and its $50 million acquisition of Physician Associates, a large, primary-care medical practice. That purchase is set to be complete Dec. 31.

Orlando Health officials called the cost-cutting moves necessary.

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So, capitalism works?

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