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One thing I have yet to see anybody answer about M4A is how many people its going to put out of work. There are around 900,000 people who work for health insurance companies alone, and thats not counting the people who work in smaller, private practice doctors offices that will also lose their jobs under M4A.

Full disclosure, I work for one of the major health insurers (so Im automatically evil to a bunch of you for stating that if history has told me anything). If I felt the system would actually work Id be fine with my wife and I losing everything weve worked for, but I just dont see it based on what I know about the healthcare system in this country.

Its broken, and broken badly, theres no denying that. I just cant see M4A as the answer right now. Long term maybe with some tweaks, but not right now, in its current form.

Thats something I really dont hear in these discussions about healthcare. Even with the people the government would have to hire for the administrative work, youre still putting an enormous amount of people out of work. The area I live in alone would lose almost 8,000-10,000 jobs between all of the insurers around here, and there arent enough openings elsewhere for more than a small portion of then to find other work.

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