Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Oz” and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid, has sparked controversy over resurfaced remarks from a 2013 speech, where he addressed the balance between personal and governmental responsibility for the uninsured.Dr. Oz...
  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    I always figured a great deal of those people would move to government work. They already have the expertise.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      17 days ago

      The problem is that there are large parts of those companies that are replicated multiple times that would be made redundant.

      Each company has an IT department, legal department, marketing department, and claims department, among a lot else. Most of those would be redundant or unnecessary in a single payer system.

      Part of the reason single payer is more cost effective is eliminating administrative overhead. And “administrative overhead “ is code for jobs.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          17 days ago

          No doubt. I’m an antiwork radical and think nobody should have a job. But the one thing both political parties and the public seem to agree on is “more jobs” so anyone who says “less jobs” isn’t going to get elected.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        And that seems logical! But we’ve talked about combining the local city and county for cost savings. Turns out, it wouldn’t be too big a deal.

        Not like if we doubled the population we’d need the same amount of people approving construction planning. We’d pretty much need double. And that’s one of 1,000 examples.

        But you’re spot on with admin overhead! That would indeed drop. Not by half, as in my example, but it would certainly drop. The biggest drop would be profit. And we can all agree healthcare shouldn’t run like private enterprise.

        I’m totally with you. Yes, got single-payer would slash thousands and thousands of jobs, maybe a million or three. And yes, that would fucking hurt. It’s like the Obama quotes you posted. We didn’t start on a level playing field, we started in a ditch.

        Lemmy hates our sort of discourse. “NO! It’s all very simple! Why won’t you talk simple!”