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How is this supposed to kill jobs? Total money spent should be no different. It just shifts from out of pocket to taxes.
by jernfrost 9y ago
How is this supposed to kill jobs? Total money spent should be no different. It just shifts from out of pocket to taxes.
- adt2bt 9y agoIf you read the other parent comment in this thread, total expenditures on health care would actually drop by close to 50% overall (with a few fraught assumptions, of course). In the best/worst case, that's a $350B economic blow to those who rely on insurers for their employment. Given the complexity of the health care system around the US, I'm sure any move to universal health care will be extremely economically disruptive and render quite a few people jobless without competitive skills.
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt actually drops spending significantly; there's lots of friction in healthcare caused by the maze of different payers and their different requirements and processes. But it's not a job killer; reducing the total cost drag from healthcare and the associated personal uncertainty resulting from the gaps in the status quo system ought to spur pretty much every other industry.