Chris Cillizza: Warren gave a very bad answer when asked where healthcare employees will go...

[Skya Rhen]

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[jberryhill]

1. Yeah, everyone in the health insurance industry will make the same money and the same profits

And health insurance will become reasonable by magic, with all those people sucking on the same holes in the same pockets.

[thesquanderer]

2. Disingenuous for him to cut off the next few words of her response...

"...and some will work for Medica..." -- sounded more like Medicard than Medicare, but also sounded like she didn't quite finish saying the word, so it may have been a bit of a stumble, but I think the point is, with a greatly expanded federal healthcare system, there will be a great need for employees there as well, and that was part of her answer.

[madville]

5. An expanded Medicare workforce will be contracted

And who would be in a great position to provide those contracted services? Health Insurance companies. They’ll still make billions providing administrative and processing services to a M4A system. The federal government won’t add millions of federal employees.

[redqueen]

6. If only she had said something along those lines nt

[UniteFightBack]

9. He should of cut her off before she said car insurance twice in a row. nt

[nbsmom]

3. She's not wrong

European countries and Canada still have a thriving insurance industry and successful companies. Insurance companies can still offer property/casualty (home/auto) and life insurance and annuity products.

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. While we're at it, let's mourn telephone operators

Those damn cellphones put them out of their jobs.

[cwydro]

7. And how many people were put out of work with ATMs?

Self serve checkouts?

Dayum, the poor blacksmiths when cars came along!

[Politicub]

11. And those new fangled desktop computers that put the typing pool out of business.

And whither the guy who pushed the mail cart around the office to deliver paper mail.

[cwydro]

12. Oh hell, I forgot about him!

The whole mail room for that matter!

Let’s not even begin to talk about the elevator attendants. Sigh.

[Kahuna7]

13. Check printers are pretty much kaput too. My bank prints them for me. nt

[NurseJackie]

8. I dislike Chris Cillizza... but he's right about this.

I dislike Chris Cillizza (a lot!)... but he's right about this.

[highplainsdem]

10. K&R!

[Blue_true]

14. They will most likely work at administering the new MFA system.

If anyone thinks that we are going to have a working healthcare administration that forego the skills of rank and file health insurance industry workers is just blind.