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Letter: Health care promotes jobs

By Merv Murphy, VANCOUVER
Published: March 27, 2017, 6:00am

From the March 14 story “Dire forecast for health law overhaul: CBO says millions would lose coverage with GOP bill,” The American Medical Association, which has opposed the Republican bill because it would reduce coverage, said the report shows the legislation would cause “unacceptable consequences.”

My great-grandfather was a physician. I understand that many of his patients never paid their bills, but he was effective in the Midwest farm community and in consolidating the schools and hiring quality staff.

When we have health insurance, it does not ensure our health, but it insures that the service provider is compensated to the limits provided by the insurance.

The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Obamacare have not evaporated into thin air. They have paid for jobs with generally good pay and benefits in the health care industry, for jobs in the construction industry that has built the new facilities, for jobs in the insurance industry that administers the compensation, for jobs for lobbyists to sweeten the landscape, for jobs for the pharmaceutical industry, for jobs in the computer industry to hold it all together, and potentially for jobs in dental health, to mention a few.

Updating our infrastructure is also needed and would create many more jobs, but no more CRCs please.

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