Depending on whom you ask, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a panacea to the country’s rising cost of health care or a government-sponsored spending spree that will lead the nation down the path to financial ruin. The Bay Area Council Economic Institute recently released a report claiming that if the Affordable Care Act had been implemented in 2010, it would have resulted in almost 99,000 new jobs statewide according to a story on www.cmanet.org.