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Consider the source. The Washington Times is a far-right wing paper playing at reporting real news. If you read actual economists (I would suggest either Joseph Stiglitz or Paul Krugman both of whom are Nobel laureates in economics) you get a very different picture of health care reform. I will say this, however, regarding your specific concerns re: unemployment. Every time the minimum wage has been raised, every single time, we have been told that the $.50 or $.75 hike will be the very death of the American economy. Every time it has turned out not to be true. Every. Single. Time. We've been told that businesses will stop hiring and that hasn't happened.
The view of economics that one finds in publications like the Washington Times has as much to do with actual economics as a movie like Star Wars has to do with actual space travel. This is, of course, to say nothing at all.
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Aj
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