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Some advice: if health care reform doesn't pass, become a doctor, nurse, or health care employee

Posted Sep 8th 2009 5:45PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Forecasts, Politics

After discussing the status of health care with my three trusted economist friends and one equally-trusted public policy colleague, here is their employment advice for if health care reform doesn't pass and rein-in health care costs.

If health care reform doesn't pass, those citizens capable of doing so should consider becoming doctors, nurses, radiologists, surgical specialists, hospital technical support staff etc. -- i.e. consider almost any job/position in or affiliated with health care.

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Health Care's costs & the misguided debate

Posted Jul 22nd 2009 5:00PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Other Issues, Rants and Raves, Competitive Strategy, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Politics

In recent stories I have highlighted several health care stocks that I think would be strong candidates for small portfolios (Part 1 and Part 2) that would be safe and pay high yields. These include: Johnson and Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Abott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) and Novartis AG ADS (NYSE: NVS). I have been thinking about these companies and how others will fare in the health care debate.

While Washington debates the merits of various health care bills, the health care companies lobby to influence the outcome. Businesses and employees are resistant to taxing current health care benefits but very few people are opposed to taxing those that get big paychecks.

I think we are heading down the wrong path regarding health care "reform" once again. There is no question that most people want to improve health care in many respects, including but not limited to, the quality, cost, and delivery, but the devil is in the details and we may end up no better off than we started except of course with more complexity and greater cost.

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