[lbo-talk] Single Payer as stimulus and job program

[Michael Pollak]

[Admittedly, universal coverage done the wrong way might also generate 
just as many jobs -- until it went broke through fiscal constraints. 
Funny how the O administration, with all its concerned with the fiscal 
medium term, isn't considering single payer on that ground alone.]

http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2009/january/first-of-its-kind-study-medicare-for-all-single-payer-reform-would-be-major-stimulus-for-economy-with-2-6-million-new-jobs-317-billion-in-business-revenue-100-billion-in-wages.html

Establishing a national single-payer style healthcare reform system would 
provide a major stimulus for the U.S. economy by creating 2.6 million new 
jobs, and infusing $317 billion in new business and public revenues, with 
another $100 billion in wages into the U.S. economy, according to the 
findings of a groundbreaking study released [January 14, 2009].

Report at:

http://www.calnurses.org/research/pdfs/ihsp_sp_economic_study_2009.pdf

Michael