National Journal: Meanwhile, a White House official says the new health law will augment the estimated 3.2 million health care jobs slated to be created through 2018. White House Office of Health Reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle said at a National Journal forum that "[s]lowing cost growth would lower the deficit, raise public savings, and eventually lead to job creation and lower unemployment. But panelist Thomas Miller of the American Enterprise Institute was skeptical of what he called the administration's 'marketing pitch.' 'Given that the larger economy is disappointing, we have to be told that the health law, and the ordeal we just went through in the last years, was actually to create jobs,' Miller said" (Fung, 9/16).

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