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Pop quiz: Who said the following?
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Do Republicans really oppose making health insurance cheaper?
Short answer: apparently. They argue that if we have either Medicare for all or some sort of pool/exchange, people will quit their jobs and decrease the labor supply, which disingenuous tits like Paul Ryan equate to killing jobs. Um, if people who want to remove themselves from the labor pool, through early retirement or otherwise, do so (because the only thing preventing such is concern about purchasing health insurance on the "free" market (which is in truth a monopoly)), their job will not disappear (most of the time). Job seekers (aka the unemployed) will be able to take the newly-opened position, and -- stay with me; I know this is mind-blowing -- unemployment will decrease.
The only way you could consider people voluntarily leaving the labor pool (to homeschool a child, to retire early, whatever) to be increasing the unemployed is if you're a) a disingenuous liar like Paul Ryan or b) if you consider all people who don't work, whether or not they're actively seeking employment, unemployed, which isn't the standard definition of unemployment.
Also, from the irony department, Medicare recipients are still against government handouts.
Behind this plush curtain of tax and spend, three sinister spooks or ghosts are mixing poison for the American people. They are the shades of Mussolini, with his bureaucratic fascism; of Karl Marx, and his socialism; and of Lord Keynes, with his perpetual government spending, deficits, and inflation. And we added a new ideology of our own. That is government give-away programs….
Click the link to find out.
Do Republicans really oppose making health insurance cheaper?
Short answer: apparently. They argue that if we have either Medicare for all or some sort of pool/exchange, people will quit their jobs and decrease the labor supply, which disingenuous tits like Paul Ryan equate to killing jobs. Um, if people who want to remove themselves from the labor pool, through early retirement or otherwise, do so (because the only thing preventing such is concern about purchasing health insurance on the "free" market (which is in truth a monopoly)), their job will not disappear (most of the time). Job seekers (aka the unemployed) will be able to take the newly-opened position, and -- stay with me; I know this is mind-blowing -- unemployment will decrease.
The only way you could consider people voluntarily leaving the labor pool (to homeschool a child, to retire early, whatever) to be increasing the unemployed is if you're a) a disingenuous liar like Paul Ryan or b) if you consider all people who don't work, whether or not they're actively seeking employment, unemployed, which isn't the standard definition of unemployment.
Also, from the irony department, Medicare recipients are still against government handouts.
