Reply #48: Your statement [View All]

in the OP was:

"Health care and health care insurance is 17 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. One cannot simply "nationalize" that many jobs and that much equity without having catastrophic consequences for the economy."

Single payer would not nationalize healthcare jobs. That 17% figure you're throwing out is worthless because it includes jobs that would remain unaffected. Also, you cannot measure impact on labor force by using GDP measures. If you want to measure that impact then you need to be talking about the number of workers who will be impacted. Makes sense doesn't it. After all the impact on health care insurance workers is your concern isn't it?

The health care insurance function under a single payer system could go to any designated entity under a single payer system. For example, insurance companies could be merged and serve as a quasi government entity. Under that scenario many of those workers would retain their jobs with little disruption.