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Old 09-11-2009, 04:40 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Willravel View Post
Jazz, if (and this is of course a massive if) the US were to ever become single-payer, would you be willing to shift over to doing administrative work in the public medical service?
1) I do casualty insurance, not health insurance, so the impact on my career wouldn't be immediate. It would definitely happen, but it would take a few years. Most of my business is construction related anyway, which means that injuries to individuals that require medical care are rare. Most of the claims I see are for property damage.
2) I'm primarily a negotiator/salesman, more than anything else, and I imagine I would be spectacularly bad at administrative work.
3) Even in a single payer world, there is still the need for folks like me, as demonstrated by the fact that London is the largest insurance market in the world and has a single payer system. I'd probably just change my focus.
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