General Discussion

So terribly sorry for accusing you of citing the NYT.

Another poster in this thread linked to a DU thread that was based on an NYT article. I responded to that and you responded to my post. Mea maxima culpa for wrongly thinking that you would rely on the NYT.

As for the thousands or hundreds of thousands, if you read carefully, I was referring to the insurance company employees about whom you are concerned. I'm sure there are thousands of them right now, let alone over the centuries, and I'd be startled if there were not hundreds of thousands. But, as to the latter, I could be overestimating it.

I'm sorry that this source is not a podcast, as you seem to be fixated on getting information from them, but here's a reasonably reliable website that says that the current number of employees in the life, health, and medical industries is about 910,000, which, I submit, qualifies as both thousands and hundreds of thousands. Those are the people who you claim are at risk.

I'm pretty sure that there are fewer than 700,000 of 900,000 employees in the life insurance biz, so I'm confident that "hundreds of thousands" is an apt characterization of the number of threatened health insurance workers.