From Common Dreams:
The nation's most trusted healthcare professionals published their long-awaited study this week that shows 2.6 million new jobs created following the implementation of a single payer - publicly funded, privately delivered -- healthcare system. The National Nurses Organizing Committee and California Nurses Association study also found that establishing a national single-payer style healthcare system would provide a major stimulus for the U.S. economy by infusing $317 billion in new business and public revenues, with another $100 billion in wages into the U.S. economy.
The author of this piece is Donna Smith, who is a community organizer for the California Nurses Association and National Co-Chair for the Progressive Democrats of America Healthcare Not Warfare campaign. She sounds an optimistic note here:
And the really good news? The nurses were welcomed as healthcare policy "stakeholders" by the Obama team and the study is in their hands. Surely, the chance to do what is right and what is just will prove an attractive choice for a President who has seen what injustice has done to so many people and who tells us he understands.
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