{"id":677,"date":"2019-05-14T19:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2019-05-14T19:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:59:54","slug":"the-workers-who-will-lose-their-jobs-under-medicare-for-all-peoples-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"The workers who will lose their jobs under Medicare for All \u2013 People&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a good discussion with a friend the other night about Medicare for All, and played the devil&#8217;s advocate.\u00a0 One of my bugbears is the speed of the transition from the mess we have now to the new plan; it seems it would necessarily involve laying off millions of insurance analysts, data entry people in hospitals and clinics, middle managers, all the paper-pushers who make up a large proportion of the medical care establishment, which is itself nearly 20% of the economy by GDP.<\/p>\n<p>A good article on exactly this:<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplesworld.org\/article\/looking-after-workers-who-will-lose-their-jobs-under-medicare-for-all\/\">The workers who will lose their jobs under Medicare for All \u2013 People&#8217;s World<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As usual, it&#8217;s not the end goal that is destabilizing, it&#8217;s the sudden transition.\u00a0 Just like the automation wave that&#8217;s happening now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a good discussion with a friend the other night about Medicare for All, and played the devil&#8217;s advocate.\u00a0 One of my bugbears is the speed of the transition from the mess we have now to the new plan; it seems it would necessarily involve laying off millions of insurance analysts, data entry people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}