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Originally Posted by flstf
I wonder how damaging having universal health care would be to the economy? All those malpractice lawyers with no work and insurance industry layoffs. The more I think about it, it will take a lot to overcome these lobbies.
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This is an excelent point. There are a lot of people who make a living on the problems in the current healthcare system. They take advantage of problems inherant to a system that is supposed to help people. A lot of solutions to current job problems in the US can be remedied by better schooling and job training, so it might be good to take those lawyers and give them different skills that will be benificial to the US econemy (I mean specifically helping those who would be hurt by the switch to socialized medicine with scholarships). If the lawyers are so trained and they are able to find work in other areas, the lobbies will fall apart. A lot of the focus of our government funding should be diverted after the establishment of a stable government in Iraq back to funding the intilectual resources of the US and their certian positive effect on our econemy. An investment in knowledge, not war, would be an excelent way to become more respectable in the world opinion.