George Soros Tells Progressive Donors Obama Might Not Be The Best Investment

Actually, the job creation aspect of healthcare reform was lost when the real reform proposed by single payer universal healthcare advocates was eliminated from even getting a seat at the table.  

The 'job creation' reform that survived was billions spent on the Patriot Act-like invasion of citizens' privacy and outsourcing of jobs that's involved with putting medical records on the internet, all for a system that doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone -- Not even those who think they're going to get it.

The real shame of this is that Obama could have been a transcendent president, good for both business AND the People.  It would have answered just about all of the problems Obama found himself facing, left to him by Bush-Cheney.

For even a single payer universal healthcare program wouldn't have put the insurance industry out of business.  It would have been a two-tiered system: Basic coverage for everyone and boutique coverage for those willing to pay for it. So nobody had to worry about poor Big Insurance & Big Pharma -- There would have been work for all. Big Insurance & Big Pharma would just had to have made smarter gambles, with no taxpayer bailouts.

With single payer universal health care, there would be more treatment shifted to non-physician practitioners (nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, and other allied health professionals). Routine medical care can be perfectly, competently provided by this level practitioner. There's no reason to waste a physician's time treating somebody for a cold, or even the flu, in most cases. 

It's true that if universal health coverage were to become an official reality, we would need to expand training programs for both MDs and non-MD providers to insure there were enough to go around, but in the long run it would probably mean cheaper and more effective service, along with job creation.

These are all good things.
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