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Re:US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the ... by StephenAmar on Sunday April 14, 2019 @05:14PM (#19661756)
This is the core problem. I'm all for Medicare for all, but what to do with the many physician assistants, nurses, billing specialists that the US is employing and promoting as a middle class career as we speak.

These people will not just stay silent when they become unemployed because practitioners can't afford to keep them. You need retraining programs (in what? Beats me ...), fund unemployment insurance ...

The point is that things don't happen in a vacuum.

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Re:US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the ... by AnimalMuppet on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:28PM (#19662302)
You're looking at it backwards. We, as a society, can stop wasting people on this nonsense, and find something worthwhile for them to do.

(Yes, and we have some responsibility to make it possible for them to find a new way to earn a living, training them if needed.)

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Re:US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the ... by StephenAmar on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:13AM (#19665023)
Anecdotally, I see the situation in France (I'm from there). Unemployment is always high.

People have great healthcare, but they are still struggling with mininum income service jobs. They won't be ruined by a cancer diagnosis though.

I don't think any western countries has figured out how to expand the middle class in recent times without heavy subsidies (in the US, we are effectively subsidizing those jobs with our high costs)

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Re:US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the ... by yourbandsucks on Sunday April 14, 2019 @06:54PM (#19662174)
Keep the PAs and nurses, lose the billing specialists. Seems like a really clear cut call to me.

I know they're people, maybe we could have retraining programs, but it's not like private capital says "what about the people?" when trimming the redundant.

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