Reply #18: So with DK's plan, you put a million people out of work [View All]

[zalinda]

so you can have single payer insurance. Where will these people find work? Do you have jobs to offer them? And it's not just those who work in the insurance companies, it's all those who work in the doctor's office filling out the paper work. Do you fire them state by state, or all at once?

How will all those millions of people, now on private health insurance get government insurance? How will this be accomplished? Fire the people in the insurance industry and then transfer all of those who have policies to government policies? The logistics of this move is massive. It is vastly easier said than done.

Sometimes the logic on this board is so skewed, it bewilders me. So far the only plan that makes sense is Edwards'. You make the private insurance companies compete with the government plan. Any person can opt for public or private plans, if you think public plans are beneath you, you can have a private plan. But, most people will look at what they get with a private plan, and what they get with a public plan and choose which is best for them.

In this way, you starve the private insurance companies out. They lay off people gradually, so there isn't a huge influx of unemployed people into the already tight job market. You also have people dribbling into the public system, instead of slamming millions into it at one time. This is the most common sense approach.

zalinda