Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ...
by omegaworks on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:53PM
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>many jobs will be eliminated.
I just wanted to emphasize this point from your quote:
>funding for early retirement options, extensive severance, retraining programmes, and relocation expenses for all workers in these sectors. Implementation of such a plan is estimated to... a sum which would be recouped within the first year by the health-care savings estimated here."
Even if we provided a generous 2 years of severance for people to transition into other roles, we still save in the long term.
I just wanted to emphasize this point from your quote:
>funding for early retirement options, extensive severance, retraining programmes, and relocation expenses for all workers in these sectors. Implementation of such a plan is estimated to... a sum which would be recouped within the first year by the health-care savings estimated here."
Even if we provided a generous 2 years of severance for people to transition into other roles, we still save in the long term.