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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (2377)10/26/2007 8:00:50 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
re: ...how else would costs be reduced? Price controls? Well then you either force everyone down to the level that the prices you allow will get, or you let them get health care and health insurance outside these limits from other sources and you don't have single payer.

Sigh.

*Profit. It's $Billions in the health insurance industry.
*Compensation. We don't have to pay all those over-priced CEO's and middle management in the health insurance industry.
*Corruption cost (see: bizjournals.com.
*Sales representatives commissions and salaries (15% of costs?).
*And the "significant" savings, especially at the provider end (both hospitals and doctors offices), from one single payment system. There is one "payer" with one set of rules rather than 100's. Cuts overhead dramatically for the provider.

Listen carefully, all these reasons are valid. The evidence is in, the European systems are 1/2 the price and as effective, in some cases more effective. And they insure almost everyone. Maybe we only cut costs by 30%... that would be enough to insure everyone in the country for the same total cost.

Why not give it a try since universal works better in 100% of the other similar countries? Unless it is an ideological, not pragmatic objection. Then I guess we have nothing else to discuss... a dead end.
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