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Health Care Reform

By lex, on November 3rd, 2009

You’ve heard about the so-called “jobless” recovery?

Turns out the government has a plan for that, too.

These are good jobs, government jobs. Full benefits package and it’s almost impossible to get fired from one of them.

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November 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: economy

4 comments to Health Care Reform

  • ProwlerAMDO
    November 3, 2009 at 8:21 am

    Oh no, you obviously don’t get it. Can’t you see that 111 new agencies with their own staffs and ranks and files that don’t produce anything but bureaucracy will obviously allow us to cover more of the uninsured while at the same time lowering costs and not harming quality of care. I can’t believe just how far right and extreme and out of the mainstream Hugh Hewitt must be to try to argue anything but that it won’t, just another indication of how far off the rocker those Rethuglicans have gone. (Vote Democrat! And don’t attend Tea Parties, because don’t you know that BHO might just give you $400 or $250 of your own money back?!)

  • Marianne Matthews
    November 3, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Afraid I disagree, Prowler, even though I know you’re being sarcastic. We just had a Tea Party rally here in Houston yesterday. Nobody was arrested because Tea Partiers, being grown-ups, are usually peaceable people trying to make a point to the oblivious government. But as time passes, and the Obamacare bill is forced down our reluctant throats [gag] the cap&tax-tax-tax bill is coming up. And the Administration is getting pretty testy, and wants it passed before the Copenhagen climate treaty meeting in December. This bill we also have to worry about, since it acts as a VAT, taxing every step of manufacturing of complex products. And we just don’t need that right now with our economy so fragile.

    Marianne

  • JKB
    November 3, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Sadly, these jobs are little more than thrashing in the great pool of the economy. In the end, after the workers are paid in full and dutifully pay their taxes, the Treasury will be down for all their efforts. For all the benefit a career in government might bring to society, the government worker individually is always a drain on the treasury. From the few listed, there are no obvious candidates among the new agencies that will enhance the economic prospects of American business and therefore the remittances to the Treasury. At least not as obvious as freely navigable seas, open and safe ports, safe travel on highways or free trade.

  • babs
    November 3, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    I heard some disturbing news about the NHS in the UK
    The UK has roughly 60 million citizens. The NHS has 1.25 million workers! The care providers are outnumbered 3 to 1 by the administrators.
    If we follow that model in the US with roughly 300 million citizens that would mean 6.25 million workers to administer and deliver health care; roughly 1.6 million actual care providers and 4.7 million bureaucrats.
    Get your brain around that!
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