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Banner Image: Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Jason Furman speaks about the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report and the Affordable Care Act at the White House in Washington February 4, 2014. Obama's healthcare law will reduce American workforce participation by the equivalent of 2 million full-time jobs in 2017, the CBO said on Tuesday, prompting Republicans to paint the law as bad medicine for the U.S. economy. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque