By Richard E Walrath   

I thought I’d thrown it away, but I looked around and there was the September 25, 2006 BusinessWeek staring me in the face with the headline,

"What’s Really Propping Up the Economy?" 

"Health care has added 1.7 million jobs since 2001.  The rest of the private sector?  None.  By Michael Mandel (P. 54)"

So says BusinessWeek. 

But it’s profit AND jobs.  Insurance companies have been beefing up on claim deniers–people trained to deny claims.  Even as insurance companies hire more people, they pay fewer claims.

The article is now almost a year old, but things and times haven’t changed except to get worse.