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note that this chart reflects costs t0 2011, since then the rise in healthcare costs has been 1.5%, significantly lower than anytime in the past five decades

Bureau of Labor Statistics 2010
Average annual percentage increases in jobs, postwar Presidents:

Harry S. Truman (Democrat): increase of 2.95 percent a year
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican): increase of 0.50 percent a year
John F. Kennedy (Democrat): increase of 2.03 percent a year
Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat): increase of 3.88 percent a year
Richard M. Nixon (Republican): increase of 2.16 percent a year
Gerald R. Ford (Republican): increase of 0.86 percent a year
Jimmy Carter (Democrat): increase of 3.45 percent a year
Ronald Reagan (Republican): increase of 2.46 percent a year
George H.W. Bush (Republican): increase of 0.40 percent a year
Bill Clinton (Democrat): increase of 2.86 percent a year
George W. Bush (Republican): increase of 0.01 percent a year
Barack Obama (Democrat): decrease of 3.0 percent a year
If you exclude Obama, Democrats averaged 3.03 percent annual job growth, compared to 1.07 percent for Republicans -- a nearly 3-to-1 advantage.

If you include Obama, the Democrats still held a significant edge. With Obama included, the Democrats averaged 2.03 annual job growth, compared to the same 1.07 for Republicans -- about twice as high as the GOP.

[Note that the statistics for Obama include job losses in the 1st quarter of 2009, which rightly belong to GW Bush, considering Obama wasn’t sworn in until January 20, 2009 and didn’t' have a cabinet in place during that time, much less have an ability to impact job growth. We were losing jobs at a rate of several hundred thousand a month when Obama took office. Still,  Obama has a net gain of jobs in his first five years in office.. This is one of the ‘tricks’ G0P apologists use when attacking Obama, accusing him of being responsible for job losses brought about by the Bush/Cheney recession.]