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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (577358)	7/22/2010 1:37:01 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575608

>Or you can stop being disingenuous and admit that you really want to raise taxes on everyone at or above your income level. No, Tench. It was my own original thought, and I did some research. The number was accurate. The point is that there's no massive federal bureaucracy to be created by instituting universal health insurance. There may be some additional state bureaucracy, which I don't think scares you conservatives all that much, but still it's not that big. I just looked up New York State, for instance, and the department that administers Medicare and several other programs for seniors, and it seems that in the third-largest state in the country, there are probably several hundred staff running it. And keep in mind that seniors make up a large chunk of our population and they're the portion that requires the most health care. You're probably really talking, between federal and state government, at the most, 50,000 new employees. And that's not that much. But that's single-payer, and we're not going there anytime soon. Under the Obama plan, which is not single-payer, frankly it's just a bunch of regulations on existing insurance companies. I'd guess that if a significant amount of new jobs were created, they'd be with private insurers and not with the government. I know that i-node, who I have on ignore, is going to rail about how naive I am and how uninformed I am. It's what he does. And he's wrong. -Z