> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”
If Kaiser could figure out how to cut those jobs themselves, it’d be done by next week. When it’s for the good of society, we have a conscience; when it’s for the bottom line, there’s no conscience and that’s celebrated. I have no solutions, only a pervasive anxiety.
Would they? Internal corporate politics says a team's manager, who's going to best know the value the team provides, is not going to declare their team is redundant and fire them and then quit themselves because what they're doing isn't necessary.
> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”