Medicare-For-All Will Create 2.6 Million New Jobs, Say CA Nurses

[BlackAsCoal]

Medicare-For-All Will Create 2.6 Million New Jobs, Say CA Nurses
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon

According to a study released January 14 by the California Nurses Association, adoptiing a single payer system of universal health care in the US would create 2.6 million new jobs, as many as the Bush economy destroyed in 2006, and boost the revenues of private employers by an annual $317 billion. A single payer health care system would put more than $100 billion in the pockets of employees and add $44 billion to state, local and federal budgets in badly needed tax revenues.

The CNA study details the economic benefits of healthcare to the overall economy, showing how changes in direct healthcare delivery affect all other significant sectors touched by healthcare, and how sweeping healthcare reform can help drive the nation's economic recovery.

"These dramatic new findings document for the first time that a single-payer system could not only solve our healthcare crisis, but also substantially contribute to putting America back to work and assisting the economic recovery," said Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association, which sponsored the study.

The numbers of new jobs created by single payer health care alone dwarf anything yet proposed by the Obama administration or the “Buy America” add-ons to its stimulus bills, in addition to fulfilling the public expectation that Democrats enact a plan of universal and affordable health care for every American this year.

"Through direct and supplemental expenditures, healthcare is already a uniquely dominant force in the U.S. economy," said Don DeMoro, lead author of the study and director of the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy, the NNOC/CNA research arm.

"However, so much more is possible. If we were to expand our present Medicare system to cover all Americans, the economic stimulus alone would create an immense engine that would help drive our national economy for decades to come," DeMoro

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Socialism .. at work.

[Hog Trash]

Dependacy on government gives power to government.

Giving power to government, takes power away from people.

I would rather be sickly and unhealthy, than to be ruled and enslaved.

As a matter of fact, I would rather be dead than to surrender my freedom.

[ROdger Right]

Here here
Socialism isnt what we want or need so I guess someone has to start killing people

[ROdger Right]

Hahaha medicare for all, As if such things could work.
bankrupt America is what thatll do.

[Dale escondido]

Hahaha medicare for all, As if such things could work.
bankrupt America is what thatll do.

America is bankrupt, but as long as we believe they will keep spending.
I wonder if there is anyone out there willing to buy our debt left?
Maybe after we rebuild the infrastructure we will hand the keys over to the new owners.

[SirMoby]

America is bankrupt, but as long as we believe they will keep spending.
Interesting, I've been telling people that we were going bankrupt since 2001. Many people didn't seem to understand that but now think we're going to be bankrupt tomorrow and that the $5 to $6 Trillion debt we amassed since 2001 was some how good.

I agree with you. We are already bankrupt.

[Dale escondido]

Interesting, I've been telling people that we were going bankrupt since 2001. Many people didn't seem to understand that but now think we're going to be bankrupt tomorrow and that the $5 to $6 Trillion debt we amassed since 2001 was some how good.

I agree with you. We are already bankrupt.

Its like religion, as long as we continue to believe there is hope.
Wasnt in god we trust put on money after the end of the gold standard:lmao2:

[SirMoby]

Here here
Socialism isnt what we want or need so I guess someone has to start killing people
Is medical care for all citizens really Socialism? Is having a national highway system Socialism? What about a national space program or air traffic control?

I'm not a fan of single payer health care in America but it works in many countries that didn't go bankrupt.

[Cat slave]

Dependent people are so easy to control and thats whats going on here.

[Hog Trash]

Interesting, I've been telling people that we were going bankrupt since 2001. Many people didn't seem to understand that but now think we're going to be bankrupt tomorrow and that the $5 to $6 Trillion debt we amassed since 2001 was some how good.

I agree with you. We are already bankrupt.Ron Paul has been telling us and Congress that were heading towards a financial crisis for 35 years.....They ignored him and kept on printing money.

Nobodies been listening to him, why would they listen to you? In fact you're part of the problem. Being a liberal, you're for big government social programs.

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2008/cr070908h.htm

[ROdger Right]

Is medical care for all citizens really Socialism? Is having a national highway system Socialism? What about a national space program or air traffic control?

I'm not a fan of single payer health care in America but it works in many countries that didn't go bankrupt.

I doubt that many countries have healthcare and it works without hindering the government. If you said one country i may have believed you. Dont fool yourself as to believing healthcare will work even if its only aided by government.

I thought we already had a space program. Im not sure how all the planes get by with out air trafic controllers at the moment. Did you mean the government take over of such programs?

And im not sure since we are bankrupt that we should continue down the same path. At the moment we are holding the world together so maybe more sound finanial solutions are out there.