Now there's no question the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an overwritten legislative mess that does more harm than good, but one thing it doesn't appear to be doing – at least not yet – is costing us jobs. In fact, it's actually piling them on.

Back when President Obama signed PPACA into law, the nation's health care industry employed roughly 13.74 million people. Now, about a year-and-half later, it's nearly 14.2 million – a bump of more than 440,000.

So looking at those numbers, health reform has been a boon for the health business. And as our population continues to age – and the technology to care for them improves – demand will keep surging. And it doesn't hurt that we've got a whole batch of early twenty-somethings going to the doctor now that they've got coverage under Mom and Dad.

Now, of course, this doesn't begin to address my friends in the mini-med market, whose livelihood's on the verge of being outlawed. Or all people who've actually been laid off because it was cheaper for their employers to do that than continue – or expand – coverage under the law.

(Which, as the latest Census report points out, rings up to about 1.5 million who've already lost employer-based coverage over that same time period.)

So, in this case, anyway, what's good for the doctors isn't necessarily good for the brokers.

Now, the lawyers? They've got it made.