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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Sully- who wrote (77934)2/26/2010 10:01:37 AM
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The Healthcare Job Tsunami

By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner

I keep hearing variations of this bit (video) from Nancy Pelosi about how if we only provided healthcare for everyone, businesses would be unshackled from unfair constraints. The "entrepreneurial spirit," in Pelosi's words, would be unleashed creating 400,000 jobs almost immediately and a total of 4 million jobs soon thereafter.

Really? As one looks around the world at advanced industrialized nations, is there one -- just one! -- that provides universal healthcare that has anything close to America's entrepreneurial record? Pick a country -- any country -- over the last 40 years that has equaled the American record of job creation, growth and innovation. Sure some countries, Japan for example, have had great runs. But does Nancy Pelosi honestly believe Japan Inc.'s now-fading successes were attributable to its healthcare policies?


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