OPINION October 10, 2013, 7:31 p.m. ET Andrew Puzder: ObamaCare and the Part-Time Economy

The White House insists that the health-care law has not affected hiring. That's not what the numbers show.

By  ANDREW PUZDER

There are times when the Obama administration makes statements so disconnected from economic reality that you wonder if any White House official has talked with anyone in business. A case in point: the administration's mantra that ObamaCare's definition of full-time employment as 30 or more hours per week had no effect on employers' hiring practices.

We heard it Monday night on "The Daily Show" when Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told Jon Stewart: "At least the economists, not anecdotal folks, but economists, say there is absolutely no evidence that part-time work is going up. In fact, it's going down." We've been hearing that sort of thing for months—in July, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that data failed to support "the proposition that businesses are not hiring full-time employees because of the Affordable Care Act." The president himself added to the wonder on Sept. 26, stating that "there's no widespread evidence" that ObamaCare is hurting jobs.

As the CEO of a company that has been dealing with ObamaCare for over three years, I'd like to set the record straight: The evidence that ObamaCare is having a negative impact on hiring is unequivocal, abundant and consistent with common sense.

Read full article here in The Wall Street Journal