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Friday, October 2, 2009 10:25 PM CDT
LETTER: Health care reform
can produce jobs

LEONARD DeROUSSE, Casey

In response to the article recently about “Logistics” putting our country in chaos if the new health care reform passes. I believe he is right in every detail.

Let’s take this in another direction. He is right, the new health care reform will require more doctors, nurses, staff, medicines, office supplies, and equipment.

This is exactly what this country needs. By needing more doctors, nurses, staff, offices, and equipment, this will put more people on the payroll. Manufacturers would need more employees to produce more supplies and equipment needed for the health care.

By putting people back to work and creating employment for more doctors and nurses this will in turn help the nation get out of the unemployment slump.

You can’t pay bills if you don’t have a job.

The bottom line is we need people to spend money to revive the nation. When you spend money, you create jobs.

When you don’t spend money, businesses lose and they lay off workers. Laid off workers don’t spend for extra things they don’t need. The economy drops. Chaos exists.

I am in business myself. I hear all the time, people don’t eat out which causes fast foods and restaurants to lose. They don’t take their family to theaters, it costs too much. They don’t go on trips, which causes motels and the tourist industry to lose.

People don’t travel as much which causes less fuel to be consumed. It is a domino effect. You can’t spend money you don’t have.

Laid off workers cause people to lose autos and homes. People are forced to live a different lifestyle.

It all comes down to this. If you don’t have jobs, you can’t spend money. If you don’t spend money the nation hurts.

If the new health care reform will produce more new jobs in whatever form, this is what our nation needs. Sooner the better.

If the new health care reform passes it will take years to be up and running.

In the meantime jobs will be available, doctors and nurses can be trained. The economy will get stronger. When people have jobs people are in better moods, not in a depressed state.

We need American jobs for people spending money with a sense of independence.

LEONARD DeROUSSE

Casey

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Jim1969 wrote on Oct 4, 2009 4:14 PM:

" If done right and given the time it needs to work, then yes it could work the way you suggest Leonard. My concern though has several variables. One is that our government has a poor track record over all of taking what might look good on paper and turning it into good in the real world. Second is the resolve and patience of the people. In so many way we live in a "fast food nation" where we want something right now. We as a people are too unwilling to wait for something to good to come along. As a result a shortage will be declared and further open up importing what we need to fill the gap immediately. Everything from cotton swabs to doctors will be imported into this nation at a frightening rate and the time to hire and train those to fill all the rolls needed will be buried never to be seen from again.

You have to figure it takes 3-6 months to hire and really train a production worker, 6-12 months for a nurse's aid before s/he is really ready to do their job, 4-5 years for an RN, 7-8 years for a Nurse Practioner or a Physicians Assistant, 9-10 years for your "basic" family type doctor. "

trontracer wrote on Oct 5, 2009 7:24 AM:

" Who will pay for all these healthcare employies,and when the administrators are trying to make budget they have only 2 choices 1 get by with fewer doctors and nurses or charge more for services thus driving up the cost for the taxpayer who is paying for the services forcing the buisnesses to try to cut cost only having the same 2 choices which results in getting by with fewer employies thus someone looses their job.Again back to chaos.
Putting the government in charge of anything has never proven to be effecient or effective just look at the "cash for clunkers" program.Ask a car dealership if they have recieved many payment from the gov.And this was only a 4 billion dollar program.Can you imagine have bad it will be with 2.5 trillion. "

Mattooner at Heart wrote on Oct 5, 2009 10:24 AM:

" trontracer wrote on Oct 5, 2009 7:24 AM:

"Putting the government in charge of anything has never proven to be effecient or effective . . . :

Oh, I beg to differ! Look how well they've handled the Post Office and the DMV! Oh . . . wait . . . never mind! "

Harry Potter wrote on Oct 6, 2009 6:16 AM:

" I read recently that there are over 3400 small town offices the USPS keeps opened that don't generate enough revenue to cover their costs. In our area places like Janesville and Humboldt would probably fall into that category. It seems that closing those small town PO's might be a good place to start, that is if we really want USPS reform. We want all kinds of services from our government but don't want to pay for it. Sorry folks, it doesn't work that way. "

Mattooner at Heart wrote on Oct 6, 2009 1:55 PM:

" Actually, my point was not to pick on the USPS per se, my point was to show that given the areas of our lives that the government controls, they don't have a very good track record of efficient management.

Based on how they've handled the USPS and the DMV, do we really want the government to control something as critical to an individual's life as health care? "

The Question wrote on Oct 6, 2009 5:27 PM:

" This one, please:
Amazingly, Fox News' Shepard Smith has blurted out the truth, giving a stunning argument in favor of the public option.
"Over the last 10 years health care costs in American have skyrocketed. Regular folks cannot afford it, so they tax the system by not getting preventive medicine," Smith said. "And we all end up paying for it. As the costs have gone up, the insurance industry's profits, on average, have gone up 350 percent. And it's the insurance companies which have paid and which have contributed to senators and congressmen on both sides of the aisle to the point where now we can't get what all concerned on Capitol Hill all seem to [believe] and more than 60 percent of Americans say they support, a public option... Every vote against the public option is a vote for the insurance companies."
I don't expect Smith will be employed at the Fox Propaganda Channel much longer, but America owes him a vote of thanks. "

Mama says wrote on Oct 6, 2009 9:39 PM:

" Health issue in our home is oxygen making machine combined with cpap and
need a cord for the cpap so can use it of a night. So far doing without so notifying doctor in morning to the NO RESPONSE when call the ones renting these machines. All these employees are paid and when deliver do not do all that is needed to get it going. THEY AREN'T ALLOWED to put it all together?
STILL WAITING N WAITING. "

father bob wrote on Oct 7, 2009 3:49 PM:

" hmmmmm......i received some interesting information from my son the insurance agent.

seems like Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico is dropping prescription coverage fro anyone with behavioral health issues. interesting, the people who need it most wont receive benefits. "