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I'd add that the problem of unemployment is a lot more mild than many who make that argument would have us believe.  It isn't like the insurance industry would disappear overnight with a public option.  You'd probably lose some jobs here and there, and eventually they might all be gone (decades down the road), but we're not talking about dumping millions on the labor market immediately.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 05:34:22 PM EST
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" It isn't like the insurance industry would disappear overnight with a public option."

But what Giordano argues is:
"Would single-payer and public-options still be preferable? Yes, but with the proviso that the improvement would be at the margins, and they, too, would create new problems to solve. I have yet to see a single-payer health proposal, for example, that honestly admits that removing insurance corporations altogether would cause hundreds of thousands of Americans that work for them to become unemployed."

Single payer is not the same as public option.

by rootless2 on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 07:38:32 PM EST
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