…there’s only one part of private-sector employment in the U.S. that’s been gaining jobs this decade. It’s the health care biz, including drugs and biotech. The whole rest of non-governmental employment: stagnant or dropping. Including info-tech.

In other words, our only source of job growth is a corrupt system rigged to maintain high stock prices for the drug and insurance companies, at the expense of U.S. citizens’ physical and fiscal well-being (and, due to the built-in inefficiencies of the employer-paid insurance system, at the expense of the entire rest of U.S. business).

Any attempt at health care reform in a future post-conservative government will need to take this into account. Its proponents will have to argue their plan will increase more well-paying jobs than it cuts, by cutting costs for employers.