The Invisibility of the Workforce in Health Care

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You write about how private hospitals would come to rely on onmedic care and private health insurance, and also, remarkably, on tax exempt municipal bonds. What was the actual proportion of health care jobs being created? And how could these boosters get away with peddling such a phantasy about edsand meds? Yes, i think this goes right to where we ended the last discussion about local 11 99,. The whole health care system is built upon and premised upon the kind of invisibility of a huge sect of the work force.

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