Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) confessed Wednesday that the Medicare for All plan she is pushing as part of her presidential campaign could throw as many as two million Americans out of work.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usne...-medicare-for-all-could-cost-two-million-jobs
the final sentence was a bit of sarcasm on my part.
Is that in her written plan, or was it a question she answered in an interview? Was a followup question asked about how many people Medicare will need to hire?
That is how low information voters get their confirmation bias satisfied.
Like I said earlier, this isn't going to happen overnight. Unlike the arrogant jerk in the office now who writes executive orders for everything he can't get Congress to do, Warren is not going to write an Ex Order to put everyone on Medicare.
There's plenty of data supporting the conclusion that we'd all be better off with universal health care and the ability of Medicare to bargain with drug manufacturers.
Insurance companies and drug manufacturers are lobbying heavily to protect their profits. At least consider a lot of sound bite information favors those trying to protect their profits. They aren't fighting for good health care.
This is from your link:
About half those jobs would come from insurance companies, and the other half would come from hospitals and doctors’ offices, he said.
Where are they getting that from? Why would doctors or hospitals go out of business? You just accept that figure without knowing how Prof Pollin came up with it? Are the doctors going to quit and collect unemployment? Right now one reason some hospitals are closing because states are denying people Medicaid, taking away a lot of the patients they would normally see. Those patients wait until they are very ill then go in an ED because the ED cannot turn them away.
There are huge problems with private insurers making demands on hospitals, causing financial issues with the insurance companies' bargaining power. That would be better if those reduced reimbursements were passed on to the patient. They aren't. They go into company profits.
I could go on and on and bore everyone. But rather than that,
if I can just get a couple people to stop taking news interviews as the source of complicated policy platforms.
Sadly, that means actually looking at
Warren's plan directly, and that's harder than listening to the sound bites. (Lots of links to supporting data and her other positions are at the same link.)
Bottom line, I don't believe the claim hospitals will close and doctors will be out of work without seeing what Pollin is basing that on. And given Medicare is an insurance plan, many of those laid off insurance workers will need to be hired by Medicare.
Edited to add: if those are jobs lost because workers in clinics and hospitals manage billing and collecting from third party payers, their jobs aren't going anywhere.The only change would be who the third party payer was.